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The IoT is a disaster in slow-motion, and outside of highly technical circles, it seems to be one that is totally invisible.
by M_Grey 10y ago
The IoT is a disaster in slow-motion, and outside of highly technical circles, it seems to be one that is totally invisible.
- w8rbt 10y agoThese devices, when taken as a whole, will be largely vulnerable and there will be enough of them to carry-out enormous DDoS attacks. Our toasters are gonna take down the Internet.
- M_Grey 10y agoThis is not the rise of the machines that I think anyone was expecting, although I suspect Futurama gave us a bit of preview. DDOS'ed by a toaster... the future is weird.
- andrewflnr 10y ago> there are enough of them to carry-out enormous DDoS attacks Fixed that for you.
- ryanlol 10y agoNo there aren't. "Enormous" would be 15 million conficker nodes hitting someone, not a shitty 500k node "IoT" net.
- M_Grey 10y ago5 million conficker nodes hitting someone I can't be the only person who moaned out loud at that notion, and who also sees no way to stop it. People so often need to be burned to learn about fire, but in this case owning an IoT item is unlikely to burn the owner. I don't see a good solution to this, that is likely to actually happen, unless as another person said, ISP's just start blacklisting people with compromised IoT devices.
- empath75 10y agoI think ISP's are going to start shutting off the internet accounts of people with compromised devices.
- wmf 10y agoWhat if that's 10% or more of their customer base? I doubt they are willing to lose the revenue.
- dermotbrennan 10y agoISPs could at least give customers warnings that they have been compromised. Not everybody will heed those warnings of course...
- M_Grey 10y agoThat's still the only thing that I can imagine connecting the harm done by the IoT, to the owners of IoT devices.
- wmf 10y agoIt's not clear that customers should be held responsible. Maybe UL should look into this.
- M_Grey 10y agoAt some point surely the people who are not willing to pay for security, cannot be bothered with security, yet will buy IoT crap have to take some responsibility? After all, they are the market which is being catered to.
- wmf 10y agoAt least in the US that's not how any other product category works. People have offloaded all safety and security concerns to the government or the market so that it's just assumed that any mass-produced product is safe enough and customers don't need to worry about it.
- BlickSilly 10y agorelevant Joy of Tech web comic titled: "The Internet of Ransomeware Things" http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2340.html http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2340.html just became a patron myself patreon.com/joyoftech
- r00fus 10y agoSounds like a scene right outta PKD's "Ubik" (the AI door that wanted payment for each entry).
- ryanlol 10y agoIoT is no more of a disaster than the computers we have today. The IoT botnets are a complete joke compared to actually big botnets consisting of desktop computers, they just haven't been used for DDoS attacks.