The NSA (National Security Agency) is funding development of an architecture for a "safer" Internet of Things (IoT), in the hope of incorporating better security at a product's design phase.
The controversial US intelligence agency is bestowing a $299,000, one-year grant to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) for a project that aims to build a lightweight virtualisation architecture which will make it easier to build security into IoT systems before they leave the factory.
There are some interesting reactions to the announcement on the Sophos Naked Security blog.
Why would the NSA invest in a project that would make it harder for them to spy on you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2015, @12:13PM
The basic thing about NSA is that it both spies on the communications of "others" and safeguard the communications of the US government. The latter is what ends up crossing into things like producing SELinux.