[191903] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Mon Oct 3 20:35:37 2016
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:47:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
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> In thinking over the last DDos involving IoT devices, I think we don't have a
> good technical solution to the problem. Cutting off people with defective
> devices they they don't understand, and have little control over, is an
> action that makes sense, but hurts the innocent. "Hey, Grandma, did you know
> your TV set is hurting the Internet?"
The way this will get solved is for a couple of large ISPs and DDoS
targets to sue a few of these IoT device manufacturers into oblivion.
--lyndon
