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Japanese government plans to hack into citizens’ IoT devices

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports:

The Japanese government approveda law amendment on Friday that will allow government workers to hack into people’s Internet of Things devices as part of an unprecedented survey of insecure IoT devices.

The survey will be carried out by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under the supervision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

Read more on ZDNet.

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