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A Federal Trade Commission attempt to rein in a poorly secured IoT device is raising questions over whether the U.S. regulator has the power to crack down on vendors suspected of shoddy practices.
On Thursday, the FTC filed a complaint against Taiwanese manufacturer D-Link Systems that charged the company's internet routers and web cameras can easily be hacked, putting consumers at risk.
But the FTC's complaint doesn't cite evidence that the products have been breached, only the potential for harm to consumers.
That's among the reasons D-Link is contesting the complaint. "Notably, the complaint does not allege any breach of a D-Link Systems device," it said in a statement.
"Instead, the FTC speculates that consumers were placed 'at risk' to be hacked, but fails to allege, as it must, that actual consumers suffered," the company said.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by digitalaudiorock on Monday January 09 2017, @08:49PM
As far as routers are concerned, proprietary firmware really is just plain evil. You're lucky if they have one or two firmware updates and a year later, it sucks to be you. Fuck that.
I finally bit the bullet recently and got a Linksys WRT1900ACS and installed dd-wrt. OMG...I should have done that ages ago. I can't say enough about that. It's like I have a real server now...gets better the more I learn about it,