[191922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ca By)
Mon Oct 3 21:30:36 2016
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:24:18 -0700
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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On Monday, October 3, 2016, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> 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
>
>
FTC has a hand in this area
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/02/asus-settles-ftc-charges-insecure-home-routers-cloud-services-put
