Re: [Bloat] Off-topic: What to Make of the U.K.’s New Code of Practice on Internet-of-Things Security

2019-01-19 Thread David Collier-Brown
The definition of "faulty" is, fortunately, "settled law", probably dating back as far as the era of Hanseatic League (a particular interest of mine: the league was the invention of a packet international-network-thingie where the packets were sailing ships). In Canada, the courts would simply

Re: [Bloat] Off-topic: What to Make of the U.K.’s New Code of Practice on Internet-of-Things Security

2019-01-19 Thread Dave Taht
There should probably be a list for political issues somewhere. I am liking various proposals for improving device security like this and the german router thing (https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2018/risikorouter ) but missing from all these requirements is "the right to repair" " The code also

[Bloat] Off-topic: What to Make of the U.K.’s New Code of Practice on Internet-of-Things Security

2019-01-15 Thread David Collier-Brown
I'm pleased to have seen this discussion on lawfare, https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-make-uks-new-code-practice-internet-things-security Instead of proposing frozen, unmaintainable devices, they expect updates, and note that a major UK retailer pulled an insecure product because it couldn't b