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@internetofshit will have a field day with this. In all seriousness, this is only going to become worse in the future. Can't wait until the day when smart frid

@internetofshit will have a field day with this. In all seriousness, this is only going to become worse in the future. Can't wait until the day when smart fridges, toasters and bicycle locks join in on a multi-Tbps attack and break the entire internet.

FilterSweep 10y ago
You can't have "Intelligent" without "Intelligent(ly sending over personal data to servers you don't own for fun and profit)" in your devices. Because connecting your toaster and fridge over a local network, and running updates via your PC/laptop would be just too complex
M_Grey 10y ago
I wonder if at some point a government or two will just decide that the dubious benefit of a wired fridge isn't worth the national security risk of increasing existing botnets by an order of magnitude?
praptak 10y ago
Internet providers will curb it by reverse-firewalling all consumer connections, maybe with support from the copyright abuse lobby, so as to kill P2P and any other advanced internet usage for that matter.
- api 10y ago
  The unfortunate and dangerous thing here is that nobody really has an incentive to fix this. The Internet doesn't belong to anyone. This really needs to be fixed at the national or international (IANA?) level by mandating the deployment of anti-DDOS source quench and anti-spoofing measures. Any owner of an IP block should be able to register a key and then send source quench messages and this needs to be deployed uniformly. But I'm not holding my breath. It's like herding cats, and as a general rule nobody anywhere cares about security unless their house is on fire (and then they go back to not caring after the fire is out). Another thing that needs to be done is to cut off support for this activity. It needs to be made illegal to pay ransom for DDOS or ransomware for that matter. If you get ransomwared or DDOSed that sucks, but that doesn't mean you should be allowed to reward the behavior and finance it being done to others.
  - jamez1 10y ago
    So if a hospital has vital patient information locked up with ransom ware, you want to make it illegal for them to pay to get it out? Your source quench nonsense sounds like just another piece of pointless infrastructure to be abused.
luhn 10y ago
If it breaks the internet, the perpetrators will have no way to shut it off. Internet armageddon.

FilterSweep 10y ago

You can't have "Intelligent" without "Intelligent(ly sending over personal data to servers you don't own for fun and profit)" in your devices. Because connecting your toaster and fridge over a local network, and running updates via your PC/laptop would be just too complex

M_Grey 10y ago

I wonder if at some point a government or two will just decide that the dubious benefit of a wired fridge isn't worth the national security risk of increasing existing botnets by an order of magnitude?

praptak 10y ago

Internet providers will curb it by reverse-firewalling all consumer connections, maybe with support from the copyright abuse lobby, so as to kill P2P and any other advanced internet usage for that matter.

api 10y ago
The unfortunate and dangerous thing here is that nobody really has an incentive to fix this. The Internet doesn't belong to anyone. This really needs to be fixed at the national or international (IANA?) level by mandating the deployment of anti-DDOS source quench and anti-spoofing measures. Any owner of an IP block should be able to register a key and then send source quench messages and this needs to be deployed uniformly. But I'm not holding my breath. It's like herding cats, and as a general rule nobody anywhere cares about security unless their house is on fire (and then they go back to not caring after the fire is out). Another thing that needs to be done is to cut off support for this activity. It needs to be made illegal to pay ransom for DDOS or ransomware for that matter. If you get ransomwared or DDOSed that sucks, but that doesn't mean you should be allowed to reward the behavior and finance it being done to others.
- jamez1 10y ago
  So if a hospital has vital patient information locked up with ransom ware, you want to make it illegal for them to pay to get it out? Your source quench nonsense sounds like just another piece of pointless infrastructure to be abused.

luhn 10y ago

If it breaks the internet, the perpetrators will have no way to shut it off. Internet armageddon.