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The Internet of scary things

The Internet of scary things

Posted Feb 2, 2017 19:18 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: The Internet of scary things by felixfix
Parent article: The Internet of scary things

> There are quite a few drugs which were approved in the EU, but the FDA took so long to approve them for the US that thousands of people died who probably would have lived if they had been able to use the EU-approved drugs.
FDA uses weighted approach on drugs and if it's a lifesaving drug for unmet needs then it's approved quickly, especially if it's approved in Europe. And can you provide examples of such drugs, by name?

> if an FDA for computers (FCA?) had been around, we'd be 10-20 years behind where we are now, waiting for it to approve IPV6 probably, and adding who knows what bureaucratic claptrap to the spec just because they wanted to mark their territory.
If an FDA for software existed, our IPv4 would have never existed and we'd have skipped straight to IPv6 (probably called differently).


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The Internet of scary things (IPv6)

Posted Feb 3, 2017 1:27 UTC (Fri) by faramir (subscriber, #2327) [Link]

Just a quick comment about scanning for vulnerable devices. It's really only
easy when you scan IPv4 space. IPv6 is much bigger. It might be security through
obscurity, but setting up your IO(S)T devices so they only communicate over IPv6 might not be such a bad idea. If they actually work on IPv6, that might also be some indication that the vendor had some clue as well.


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