Torvalds on the Internet of Things: Security plays second fiddle

For the first time, Linus Torvalds has spoken at an embedded Linux conference, the Linux Foundation’s 2016 Embedded Linux Conference & OpenIoT Summit.

It’s not that embedded Linux hasn’t been important before. Your DVRs and Wi-Fi routers almost certainly run Linux. What has changed is that the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming embedded Linux from being a topic only programmers could love to one everyone will be using soon.