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Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
- Subject: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
- From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
- Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:54:38 +0200
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Lyndon Nerenberg's message of "Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:47:22 -0700 (PDT)")
- References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
* Lyndon Nerenberg:
>> 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.
But that does not remove those devices from the network.