Japanese government will access home devices in security survey

Re:Japanese government will access home devices in security ... by ardy42 on Monday February 18, 2019 @02:06PM (#19193281)

> As long as you trust your gov.... I think Japan is probably in better relations with its citizens than most countries...

I'd trust any democratic government doing a preventative security scan for vulnerable devices, over some hacker who's only out to exploit them for personal gain.

Most people have never patched their router nor even know how to. Someone needs to proactively inform that group that they're vulnerable, at scale, if we're even going to have a chance to solve a lot of network problems.

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Re:Japanese government will access home devices in security ... by johnisgood on Monday February 18, 2019 @07:09PM (#19195662)

Why do we have to choose? Personally I don't trust either.

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Re:Japanese government will access home devices in security ... by gtirloni on Monday February 18, 2019 @10:03PM (#19196313)

If you're competent enough to manage your digital security, you're fine (99% of the population isn't). If you're not, you're endangering the society you live in (by providing attackers with a device they can use). That's one way of looking at it.

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Re:Japanese government will access home devices in security ... by Thorrez on Monday February 18, 2019 @10:29PM (#19196387)

You can't nicely ask the hacker not to do it. The hackers are constantly scanning the internet regardless of what you want.

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Re:Japanese government will access home devices in security ... by johnisgood on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:34AM (#19198475)

Same goes for most Governments though.

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