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That same minister is launching a cyber attack on unsecured IoT devices to get the country to strengthen its stuff. He seems far the from the worst guy for the
by b_tterc_p 8y ago
That same minister is launching a cyber attack on unsecured IoT devices to get the country to strengthen its stuff. He seems far the from the worst guy for the job.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/japan-aims-to-probe-unsecured-iot-devices-and-then-prod-users-to-smarten-up.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tel...
- drdaeman 8y agoSounds like a white-hat stuff to me - probing the security and reporting found vulnerabilities to owners. Genuinely curious - why do you write it like this a bad thing? As long as they don't exploit what they find, of course. Better let good-intended actors do that before ill-intended actors do the same.
- b_tterc_p 8y agoI think it’s an awesome thing to do. Heck I think they should push even harder than they’re currently doing. This is the only real way that I see governments can practically enhance average national security. I wrote that as a way to counter the assumed image of him being incompetent because he himself doesn’t use computers. Perhaps it was unclear.