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on Thursday August 20 2015, @11:21AM
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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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NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday August 20 2015, @07:10PM
They aren't monolithic. It's not totally unreasonable that some division within the NSA is actually funding real security. The problem is, you can never be sure that it's not the spys pretending to be good guys, and they've so manipulated the laws (see NSL) that to count on them being helpful is folly.
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(Score: 2) by zafiro17 on Friday August 21 2015, @05:14AM
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