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Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
- Subject: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
- From: lyndon at orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:47:22 -0700 (PDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
> In thinking over the last DDos involving IoT devices, I think we don't have a
> good technical solution to the problem. Cutting off people with defective
> devices they they don't understand, and have little control over, is an
> action that makes sense, but hurts the innocent. "Hey, Grandma, did you know
> your TV set is hurting the Internet?"
The way this will get solved is for a couple of large ISPs and DDoS
targets to sue a few of these IoT device manufacturers into oblivion.
--lyndon