[iot-discussion] What role does the SP play in protecting consumers re IoT?

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 03:21:21PM +0200, Marco Hogewoning wrote:

> (Devil???s advocate)

well, important questions.

> Most of these T&C were drafted in an era when the Internet was mostly ???entertainment???. Are these still proportional when I even can???t pay my taxes without access to the Internet?

or operate your heating or lock your front door ...

> > Oh and if your hacked toaster was damaging my interwebs, I???d *want* your ISP to pull the plug.
> 
> Agree, but it would be nice if you can just disconnect my toaster and leave my bank account, air conditioning and wine fridge in a working state :)

Welcome to the "assisted" Internet experience!

So, could be a bit more critical about the quality and quantity of "insecure
devices"?  It isn't that large populations of not-so-well reputed OSes
being abused for "something" were a new phenomenon.  Admitted, numbers were
smaller those days, but so was the infrastructure.  Not neglecting the issue,
but sceptical of knee-jerk policy making and too loud calls for regulations
that remind me of the constrained (from the customers perspective) telco
networks of 30+ years ago.  Late victories ...

-Peter