[abysmallyideal]

NIST has too much influence from the NSA. There needs to be a better standards equivalent where the US doesn't wield so much influence in subverting security protocols. It may be a pipedream considering every Western country wants to be part of the five eyes program.

edit: The most democratic and open platform in the world was made by developers from all across the world vs US made operating systems like Windows and Apple which were basically trojan horses. We need an equivalent for security protocols, and protocols in general.

We can't let US stazi entrenched Silicon Valley and their faux "Startup Scene" destroy the internet as rapidly as they are today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/technology/the-webs-creato...

[riskable]

I agree with you. I was just using the NIST as an example because they've been in the news recently; they just released some new security standards that are actually quite good! Presumably we'd use an independent organization who's whole job is to come up with best practices for the security of IoT devices.

Semi-related aside: Microsoft Active Directory violates the NIST's new password hashing guidelines because it doesn't use a random salt when storing password hashes.

[IncRnd]

>> The most democratic and open platform in the world was made by developers from all across the world vs US made operating systems like Windows and Apple which were basically trojan horses.

By platform do you mean the Internet? The Internet was initiated by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.