I don't know why I'm writing this. It's my musings on some (technological) things about the future that frighten and excite me. It's some geek talk, but it's gonna wind up in everyone's living room (and kitchen and laundry room). Just remember that when they said everyone will have a computer in their house, or telephone in their pocket, no one believed them.
Right now, there's a happy little bubble in my house. My internet service provider sends some of that delicious internet down a series of tubes into a DSL Modem/Router in my living room. They also assign a nifty little IP address to that device, so that it (and things attached to it) can be identified, and do internet type things out there on that wonderful internet. I don't really trust Little Brother's equipment, so I've bridged it to a third party router, which, unlike the ISP's device, I own wholly. I've replaced it's firmware with some open source firmware. I connect all of my devices to that, including our cellphones. I know it's not a perfect bubble, but, for the most part, by properly utilizing my router's firewall (and my devices' firewalls, too), I can control, to a large degree, what can come and go.
I'm the gatekeeper, so to speak.
But all that is scheduled to change rather quite soon.
