I Can't Let You Do That, Dave | December 2015 | Communications of the ACM

" ... DMCA 1201 is turning all of IoT into a playground for malware, where reporting vulnerabilities and releasing third-party improvements to systems are chilled by a law that was stupid in 1998 and is deadly in 2015.  Malware is always frightening, but it is much worse on systems already designed to treat their owners as adversaries. Infections on devices that take pains to hide their processes and files from their owners are much more difficult to detect and root out. Those devices are supposed to run programs that user-space apps cannot see or terminate, so malware that avails itself of this privilege becomes nearly bulletproof.  The Electronic Frontier Foundation's new Apollo 1201 project aims to reform DMCA 1201, and all of the laws like it around the world, within a decade. We want to litigate the constitutionality of 1201, representing scholars, researchers and academics, these being the kind of unimpeachable clients judges are loathe to find against ..."