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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: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday January 09 2017, @10:26PM
Except they have zero proof this toaster ever burnt a single home, they are just saying it MIGHT at some time in the future POSSIBLY burn down a home.
I'm sorry but people here are waaaay too fucking trusting to not see the nastiness at play here, we're talking about busting a company not for what they DID, but what MIGHT happen in the future.....sounds like a trivial way for the *.A.A and any other corp to just ban any competitive product, just lobby the FTC that it might do bad things in the future and voila! No more product.
Seriously guys if there is one thing you should have learned from Wikileaks the past 5 years is that you can't trust the US gov to be doing things in the interests of the people and that there is waaay too much collusion between big business and gov here. After all the shit we've seen the gov pulled in the past 5 years do you REALLY trust the gov enough to give them the blanket ability to just ban products with no actual proof they have caused harm? Really? Because I can think of several products that big business would be happy to have banned and this would give them an easy peasy way to do so, just have the FTC label it as "potentially harmful".
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.