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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday August 20 2015, @11:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-cares-what-my-fridge-thinks dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2015, @02:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2015, @02:45PM (#225411)

    Every TV is hackable. If you don't believe it, take an axe and try for yourself. ;-)