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© 2019 AFPJapan to survey 200 mil gadgets for cyber security
By Behrouz Mehri TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Yubaru
Geez, at least one thing good to come from the Olympics, MAYBE!
spinningplates
Unplug your wired PC's at home when the survey runs.
'The survey....without breaking into individual gadgets to view data stored inside, he added.'
Yeah, right. Just sayin'.
gogogo
And what do they plan to do? Force people to change their passwords? Money would have been better spent with awareness rather than scanning.
Bugle Boy of Company B
So if I get caught hacking, I should just say that I was scanning to help improve security?
papigiulio
This actually sounds logical and good that they are at least checking the wifi spots because it almost seemed like they wanted to check every home owner and their router which felt like invasion of privacy.
spinningplates
Great post jpn_guy.
Password scams are exactly what will happen.
Omachi
Exactly... the ore ore boys are already updating their scripts...
Belrick
But they don't have permission from the gadget owners! This is typical Japanese beaureaucracy and government working against the plebs of the nation!
zones2surf
Oh man, this looks like an effort with good intentions that could actually cause the very problem it is intended to prevent!!!
As others have pointed out....
sakurasuki
How about the actual owners of that gadget? They just skip that?
jerry
so the moral of the story is, skip those home connected devices and just open your doors, turn on your air conditioner etc manually, vacuum your house yourself. stop being a lazy bum.
Dukeleto
Good luck!
Pukey2
Start with the 100 million fax machines in the country.
kolohe
You must also keep in mind the background: that Yoshitaka Sakurada, the deputy chief of the government’s cybersecurity strategy office and also the minister in charge of the Olympic and Paralympic Games that Tokyo will host in 2020, doesn't use a computer.
mu-da
Will the conduct this survey by fax?
sf2k
By broadcasting these measures they are merely assurring hacks will occur off entire neighborhoods and companies!! Just getting local government off windows xp alone will be highly problematic. The irony is that the Japanese language itself is the security feature of these networks, the rest not so much
Goodlucktoyou
2020 Japan Big Brother Olympic Games. Please submit all your your private files, data, photos, passwords and emails. OH DEAR, cancel that. the govt will just take all anyway. you are instructed to stay home in your kotatsu and watch the sumo on tv.
JapanFan
I don't think this will end well.
SaikoPhysco
So while Japan's "CyberSecurity" watchdog is surveying us.... who thinks they might pass on some virus' themselves. Perfect opportunity for real hackers to piggyback on this survey.
spinningplates
...Oh, forgot to ask,
Does anyone know when this raid...erm, 'survey' will start?
Or is the announcement just a courtesy for something already underway??
Cricky
Typical retroactive idea, the ball game is beyond the Japanese government they are still in the sand pit struggling to grasp fax use, I'm guessing the minister for cyber security doesn't use a computer as he might catch a virus. Thus the immediate use of a paper masks when near a computer. The programs they are going to use are undoubtedly already compromised and their best idea is to hack all users to search for what they themselves are spreading. It's modern Japan politics at its finest. Absolutely no idea apart from a condescending note from beauracracts.
sf2k
watch out for the inevitable phishing scams
jerry
i thought nippon was supposed to be at the forefront of technology; what's this talk about faxes?