[isoc-ny] FTC IoT Home Inspector Challenge

[ISOC-NY announcements]

(H/T Jen Snow via Dewayne Hendricks)

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<https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/04/2016-31731/iot-home-inspector-challenge>*https://www.ftc.gov/iot-home-inspector-challenge
<https://www.ftc.gov/iot-home-inspector-challenge>*

FTC's IoT Home Inspector Challenge - The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”)
announces a prize competition that challenges the public to create a
technical solution (“tool”) that consumers can deploy to guard against
security vulnerabilities in software on the Internet of Things (“IoT”)
devices in their homes.

 The tool would, at a minimum, help protect consumers from security
vulnerabilities caused by out-of-date software. Contestants have the option
of adding features, such as those that would address hard-coded, factory
default or easy-to-guess passwords.

The prize for the competition is up to $25,000, with $3,000 available for
each honorable mention winner(s). Winners will be announced on or about
July 27, 2017

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The deadline for registering and submitting entries is *May 22, 2017* at
12:00pm EDT.​


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Joly MacFie
President - Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY)
http://isoc-ny.org          218 565 9365
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