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Could someone connect to all the vulnerable cameras/iot devices and lock them down so that they can't be used in botnets in the future?

• cft 10y ago
  presumably when Mirai botnet compromises them, it changes the passwords.
  • scurvy 10y ago
    A lot of the passwords can't be changed. They're fixed from the factory. That's one of the really difficult things about dealing with this. I bet that a greyhat will find a way to brick a lot of these cameras.
    • pimlottc 10y ago
      > I bet that a greyhat will find a way to brick a lot of these cameras. A chaos monkey for internet security - now that's an interesting thought! That could actually work. Market forces aren't strong enough currently to force manufacturers to get security right, since the average user doesn't really care that much about it. But if it became common for any poorly secured product to turn into a brick as soon as you connect it to the Internet, users would pretty quickly figure out what brands to buy and bring some serious pressure to bear on the others...
    • Ar-Curunir 10y ago
      Wow. I've done research on smart-locks and their poor security models before, but this is news to me. I hear people bemoaning introducing govt. regulation, but I honestly cannot see another way out of this; these manufacturers clearly do not care!
  • hilbertseries 10y ago
    Mirai kills the ssh server on the machines when it starts.