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Re:Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposin... by brundolf on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @06:17PM (#26405769)
I don't think it would, because they leaked admin credentials (unless it was encrypted with a customer key and inaccessible to admin/support)

Anyway, I think we're at the point with software/digital systems where food manufacturing was in 1900: there's been a gold-rush due to new technology, and we're reaching peak negligence in the pursuit of profit, and I think we'll soon get to a threshold where regulators will finally step in and lock down the wild-west and impose some real standards. Between SolarWinds, Exchange, and now this, it's to a point where it's dragging down our whole society. Something has to give.

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Re:Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposin... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @07:35PM (#26406374)
I just had an aha moment reading your post. Food safety, drug safety, airline safety, all these regulations were implemented because manufacturers were operating with standards so lax that people suffered actual harm.

Perhaps that's the real reason behind the anti-FDA lobbying we are seeing here. The FDA demonstrates that government-mandated safety standards work. We can't have those in the IT field because they would diminish profits!

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Re:Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposin... by morlockabove on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:56AM (#26409990)
The FDA also has massive associated costs and acts as a hurdle to innovation- which is partially by design (lobbyists like regulatory capture).
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Re:Hackers break into thousands of security cameras, exposin... by HarryHirsch on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:27AM (#26412932)
The Moderna and Biontech RNA vaccines got past the FDA in record time and are a massive innovation. What are you even talking about?

Also: Hepatitis C antivirals. One pill and you are cured, whereas in the past you'd be looking at a liver transplant. If that's not innovation it's impossible to say what that would be.

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