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So the DoD wanted to brick devices instead of just declaring companies making these devices a threat to national security, banning their products from sale, and
by FLUX-YOU 9y ago
So the DoD wanted to brick devices instead of just declaring companies making these devices a threat to national security, banning their products from sale, and setting a good precedent?
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Would the intel community really need a botnet like this to operate?
- wybiral 9y agoThe thing is that the largest consumers of these devices aren't within the US. Many of them are from Chinese companies and are being sold throughout Southeast Asia and South America.
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- johncolanduoni 9y agoI don’t think the DoD getting to unilaterally decide what devices can be sold in the US is a good precedent at all. I expect devices with troublesome features like support for end-to-end encryption would be the first to go, and insecure devices would probably stay as long as the vulnerabilities were known to them.