By starting from the considerations above, it should not
be surprising that IoT is included by the US National Intelligence
Council in the list of six ‘‘Disruptive Civil Technologies”
with potential impacts on US national power [2].
NIC foresees that ‘‘by 2025 Internet nodes may reside in
everyday things – food packages, furniture, paper documents,
and more”. It highlights future opportunities that
will arise, starting from the idea that ‘‘popular demand
combined with technology advances could drive widespread
diffusion of an Internet of Things (IoT) that could,
like the present Internet, contribute invaluably to economic
development”. The possible threats deriving from
a widespread adoption of such a technology are also
stressed. Indeed, it is emphasized that ‘‘to the extent that
everyday objects become information security risks, the
IoT could distribute those risks far more widely than the
Internet has to date”.