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there needs to be a regulation body, similar to NHTSA that regulates security of digital products.
by jordache 10y ago
there needs to be a regulation body, similar to NHTSA that regulates security of digital products.
- greggman 10y agoBecareful what you ask for. How is any software nowadays different? If I setup a raspberry pi with camera and there are exploitable bugs in the software is the creator of the software liable? Does every piece of software open source and closed source need to be approved by a regulation body before your allowed to run it? Distribute it? Put it on GitHub? There's nothing unique about IoT devices. They're just computers. If you regulate one you arguably have to regulate the other
- jordache 10y agoI'm not saying iOT devices specifically. We can define the regulation threshold at mass consumer digital and connected products. Yes, digital/software is inherently less tangible and trickier to regulate than a physical product sold at smaller volumes, but we need to start somewhere. Poorly made digital+connected products distributed in large volumes can have tremendous impact to the world population.
- Tempest1981 10y agoOr perhaps just the equivalent of Benson Leung from Google, who tests and rates USB-C cables on Amazon.