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posted by mrpg on Friday March 17 2017, @12:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the russian-roulette dept.

El Reg reports

The US Federal Trade Commission is holding off regulating the Internet of Things industry until there is an event which "harms consumers right now", according to its acting head.

Maureen Ohlhausen, the American regulator's acting head, told a gathering of cyber security professionals that she was not inclined to impose mandatory regulations on IoT devices.

"We haven't taken a position", she said, according to The Guardian.

"We're saying not 'Let's speculate about harm five years out', but 'Is there something happening that harms consumers right now or is likely to cause harm to consumers'", she added. The British newspaper contrasted her position with the Dyn cyberattack last October, when millions of hacked IoT devices crapflooded Dyn's widely used DNS servers and knocked many big websites offline, including Reddit, Netflix, and Github.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @07:26PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @07:26PM (#480573)

    What else do you expect from a violently imposed monopoly???

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 18 2017, @12:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 18 2017, @12:21AM (#480709)

    a violently imposed monopoly???

    Well, I, for one, expect to get my boot piece back! http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/17/technology/monopoly-classic-game-tokens/ [cnn.com] It is my favorite Monopoly token, I always choose it when playing Monopoly. If it is no longer available, I may become violent!