Editor’s Note: See also The Coming Cybersecurity Regulatory Revolution.
From: The Parallax
TORONTO—Too many connected devices still ship in a grossly insecure form, customers don’t seem to care, and Washington shows no sign of doing anything to bring order to the mess. But a group of security and privacy experts are declining to despair.
In a panel discussion I led at Access Now’s RightsCon conference here last week, computer scientist Bruce Schneier, former Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian, Access U.S. policy manager Amie Stepanovich, and Atlantic Council cybersafety innovation fellow Beau Woods agreed that the state of Internet of Things security stinks—and that neither device manufacturers nor the federal government seem anxious to address it.
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