Fascinating screed, detailing a so-called Chip to Protect the Internet of Things... Indeed.

"The AWS-ECC508 is an add-on chip designed to make devices more secure—at least for developers using Amazon’s IoT cloud. Cloud services are an integral part of the Internet of Things, which is built around the concept of connected objects becoming ubiquitous in our environment, and which must therefore rely on large-scale computing infrastructure." - via IEEE's Spectrum Magazine contributor Stephen Cass