It’s time to regulate baby monitors

The internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. But its creators never imagined that baby monitors, toasters and smart TVs could bring it to its knees. We need to make sure that the devices that make up the internet of things can’t be used in the kind of attack that almost broke the internet late last month.
For reasons that I will explain later, that probably means regulating the devices.
First, though, some internet history. At the height of the Cold War, in the early 1960s, th