[catlikesshrimp]

Lol???

5mbps x 200,000 subscribers is already 1 tbps

We all need faster speeds at home, not slower.

Counter suggestion: make fcc regulate iot, whenever a person's appliance enters a botnet, suspend his connection until said appliance is removed and fine the person if the device wasn't fcc aproved.

There, no more botnets inside the US. The rest of the world to go

[dpifke]

The FCC as regulator is an interesting idea.

Appliances sold in the US already have to prove they don't create harmful EMF emissions. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to add minimum security requirements to avoid harmful "data emissions" to that same certification process.

[rolisz]

So you can't make your own devices anymore?

[makapuf]

You could say you should take care of making them right. And add a few safety rules if you want to sell them.

[fragmede]

sure you can. but the instant they're part of a botnet attacking someone, you, it's owner, should have to do something about it. We have fire code to regulate what people build so they're not a death trap and this wouldn't be so different.

[NullPrefix]

How would you certify that a windows PC won't join a botnet?

[fragmede]

I wouldn't. But when the device, which happens to be running windows, takes part in a DDOS attack, I wish we could do something about that, rather than have to buy our way out of the problem by having a bigger pipe and sinking traffic, because it means that you have to be blessed by the powers that be of the Internet(Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, etc) in order to stay online in the face of a DDOS attack.