[amaterasu]

Underwriters Laboratories, UL. Look at the back of pretty much any mains powered device and you'll see their mark. They were founded 130 years ago, and test and warrant devices (typically high voltage) to be safe. Security is a new thing for them, but they're well suited to provide the services.

[ngneer]

Thanks for that context, quite interesting and very much appreciated. I ought to have looked them up proper, but their name is unrecognizable in the security scene.

I am not sure I understand why UL are "well suited" to provide these services. Is it that they have a compatible business model? I do not see how 130 years of solid experience in one domain means (much of) anything for an entirely different domain. Sounds like they have a nice round 0 years of experience in security. To make a crude analogy, this is like telling CERN to go start building spaceships. I mean, CERN has a proven track record for building complex things, right?

[cesarb]

> Underwriters Laboratories, UL. Look at the back of pretty much any mains powered device and you'll see their mark.

I just looked at the closest mains powered device I have here (a fancy humidifier/fan), and only saw an Inmetro mark, there's no UL mark at all.

(My point is: plenty of people are not from the USA. I happen to have already heard that the UL is sort of the USA equivalent of our Inmetro, though like many things in the USA it's a private entity instead of a government entity, but the parent poster probably hadn't heard of that.)