Department of Fun straps on a holster, strides into the wild west of online gadget users
The British government has finally woken up to the relatively lax security of IoT devices, and is lurching forward with legislation to make gadgets connected to the web more secure.
The Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it will require makers of IoT hardware to ship devices with unique passwords that cannot be reset to a factory default setting.
The regulation will also require these companies to "explicitly state" how long they will continue to support devices when customers purchase the product, and appoint someone – one throat to choke – to act as a point of contact so that punters can more easily report issues.
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