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

> 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 ...

The point I was heading to is that there probably is a correlation between the number of firewalls and network wide access lists dropping port 137-139 and the reputation of those OSes :) Many did take the approach of “soft guidance” into safety.

And more recently in discussions surrounding IPv6 CPE, I also observe many operators going for the “safe” option and default to dropping inbound connections, despite restoring end-to-end being potentially the key feature of IPv6.

Afraid we might have accidentally rewritten the law, probably already a few years ago and most of today’s internet operates under: "Be liberal in what you do, be conservative in what you accept from others”.

Marco