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With ISPs (at least in the US) moving towards data caps, this is becoming a reality. It won't fix the problem. DDOS attacks via IOT don't have to send much dat
by tyre 10y ago
With ISPs (at least in the US) moving towards data caps, this is becoming a reality. It won't fix the problem.
DDOS attacks via IOT don't have to send much data per request. If my devices are doing an extra 10Mb/hour, I won't notice. 1000 homes is 10Gb/hour and that's just a few blocks in a city. 100,000 homes seems easy to hit, which is a petabyte of data per hour.
It's death by a thousand paper cuts. If my internet bill goes up a dollar per month, it's highly unlikely I'm going to debug my refrigerator to figure out how to stop it.
- sophacles 10y agoI think this is missing one component though. I agree I wouldn't, you wouldn't, in fact most people wouldn't debug their refrigerator over a dollar a month bandwidth bill. I would however take into consideration bandwidth bill effects of what I buy. By comparison: today I buy LED lightbulbs and energy efficient appliances because they will have a long term cost impact on my electricity bill.
- collinmanderson 10y agoRight, though the IoT manufacturers probably aren't going to factor in internet attacks when advertising bandwidth usage. :)