Re:IoT Growing Faster Than the Ability to Defend It
by lifeisstillgood on Sunday October 30, 2016 @04:09PM
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This is a huge issue. Bigger than huge.
We live in an age equivalent to the great Pollution period of industrial revolution. Where any crap steam engine or boiler was built as long as its golden path worked. Boiler explosions killed thousands and damaged businesses for decades. Smog killed perhaps hundreds of thousands - and only government regulation reeled it in.
But we have proved awful at building service based global regulations - TTIP is barely limping now and there is little expectation that "free open global internet" is going to be rallying cry to save the agreements.
I would like to see a framework where the user owns root and so is responsible for the upkeep but the manufacturer is obliged to provide ten years worth of patches for anything sold - or provided funding to an open development process to supply patches and updates.
We live in an age equivalent to the great Pollution period of industrial revolution. Where any crap steam engine or boiler was built as long as its golden path worked. Boiler explosions killed thousands and damaged businesses for decades. Smog killed perhaps hundreds of thousands - and only government regulation reeled it in.
But we have proved awful at building service based global regulations - TTIP is barely limping now and there is little expectation that "free open global internet" is going to be rallying cry to save the agreements.
I would like to see a framework where the user owns root and so is responsible for the upkeep but the manufacturer is obliged to provide ten years worth of patches for anything sold - or provided funding to an open development process to supply patches and updates.