Last month, Japan passed a new law mandating that the government’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) attempt to break into the various devices and smart items that are connected to the internet, know as the Internet of Things (IoT). Officials justify the measure as necessary to secure the nation’s electronic networks in the run up to the 2020 Olympics. More
NICT employees are to travel around the nation and attempt to break into the devices owned by average citizens by deploying “default passwords and lists of commonly used passwords” of an estimated 200 million individuals. More
The Hackuza
Better than the American government, which has f–ked its citizens.