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NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things
The NSA is funding development [theregister.co.uk] 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.
Why would the NSA invest in a project that would make it harder for them to spy on you?
You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life."
