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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: 2) by el_oscuro on Saturday March 18 2017, @03:27PM
Actually a better car analogy would be:
You park your car on the hill and put it in park, setting the break as normal. You also lock your car and take the keys. However the car manufacturer only has about 3 or 4 keys different keys. So someone unlocks your car with one of the 4 keys and releases the brake.
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