US Government Offers $25, 000 Prize For Inventing A Way To Secure IoT Devices

[Razer]

> America's Federal Trade Commission has announced a $25,000 prize for
> whoever creates the best tool for securing consumers' IoT devices.
>
> The so-called "IoT Home Inspector Challenge" asks participants to
> create something that will work on current, already-on-the-market IoT
> devices, with extra points also awarded for scalability ad easy of
> use. "Contestants have the option of adding features, such as those
> that would address hard-coded, factory default, or easy-to-guess
> passwords," according to the official site, but "The tool would, at a
> minimum, help protect consumers from security vulnerabilities caused
> by out-of-date software."
>
> The winning submission can't be just a policy (or legal) solution, and
> will be judged by a panel which includes two computer science
> professors and a vulnerability researcher from Carnegie Mellon
> University's CERT Coordination Center. Computerworld points out that
> "This isn't the first time the FTC has offered cash for software
> tools. In 2015, it awarded $10,500 to developers of an app that could
> block robocalls."

https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/01/07/0745229/us-government-offers-25000-prize-for-inventing-a-way-to-secure-iot-devices
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