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NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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, @04:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2015, @04:12PM (#225462)

    Well, you're one of the few people here who is foolish enough to argue for unconstitutional human-rights violating mass surveillance. Congratulations. cold fjord was a similar fool on that other site, only he was a fan of irrelevant link spam.

    You're getting a pretty twisted view of what normal people think, smart ones included.

    Now, where in my comment did I suggest that the views of most people on SoylentNews reflect the views of "normal people", you insufferable fool? I do not care what "normal people" think, in the sense that popularity will not affect my own viewpoint.

    That's your interpretation. It is clear to me that you haven't actually met any of these people.

    I'd rather not meet filthy authoritarians if I can help it.

    They are in fact surprisingly pedantic about following the law

    They are only interested in following their own version of the law which permits them to do things the constitution clearly forbids them from doing. They are simple traitors, and actual patriots (as opposed to government worshipers who pretend to be patriots) know this.