> America's Federal Trade Commission has announced a $25,000 prize for > whoever creates the best tool for securing consumers' IoT devices. > > The so-called "IoT Home Inspector Challenge" asks participants to > create something that will work on current, already-on-the-market IoT > devices, with extra points also awarded for scalability ad easy of > use. "Contestants have the option of adding features, such as those > that would address hard-coded, factory default, or easy-to-guess > passwords," according to the official site, but "The tool would, at a > minimum, help protect consumers from security vulnerabilities caused > by out-of-date software." > > The winning submission can't be just a policy (or legal) solution, and > will be judged by a panel which includes two computer science > professors and a vulnerability researcher from Carnegie Mellon > University's CERT Coordination Center. Computerworld points out that > "This isn't the first time the FTC has offered cash for software > tools. In 2015, it awarded $10,500 to developers of an app that could > block robocalls."
https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/01/07/0745229/us-government-offers-25000-prize-for-inventing-a-way-to-secure-iot-devices
