Reply to post: Re: Standards Bodies need notice

Today the web was broken by countless hacked devices – your 60-second summary

Stoneshop

Re: Standards Bodies need notice

Do you really want to live in communist utopia where government can control which device you can use to connect to Internet ?

Proposals to certify idIoT devices are nothing new, and equivalent regulations concerning wireless comms have been around for eight decades. This is to try to reduce the number of devices that are actively disturbing a particular communication medium, so not at all unlike the FCC and other agencies clamping down on inappropriate radio airwave use with bans and fines for using devices that lack certification.

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