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These 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 tak
by w8rbt 10y ago
These 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.