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> Cars kill people. At worst current IoT let a pirate control your light bulbs, see your heart beat or record your sleep patterns, waste your food and listen to
by flukus 10y ago
> Cars kill people. At worst current IoT let a pirate control your light bulbs, see your heart beat or record your sleep patterns, waste your food and listen to your music.
Once you're home network is compromised it's much easier to infect other computers on it, a lot of IT people don't even run firewalls on PC's anymore. We largely rely on a single line of defense for home cyber security.
A compromised device becomes a launch pad for a bunch of other attacks, like data collection and credit card theft. Imagine how many pedophile rings would love to remotely watch kids using a built in webcam? All without the family ever knowing.
Or you could simply use them to stream illegal torrents.
- sametmax 10y agoI said "Cars kill people", not "cars could kill people". You are talking about potential. People don't care about that. Potential that I mentioned by the way, with "scandals with naked people, preferably famous ones or underage, or both." They will care only once pedophiles will have watched THEIR kids using their web cam. Repeatedly. With media coverage. Not before.
- flukus 10y agoThat was more about what lax security could do, which you were downplaying as nothing significant.
- rapsey 10y ago> You are talking about potential. People don't care about that. What people care about is irrelevant. What should be legislated for the better of all is another matter. Car safety laws were unpopular with a lot of regular people as well.
- sametmax 10y agoThat's fair but it was because dead people cost money.
- mirimir 10y agoIf cars were a new technology today, two-way highways without center dividers would not exist.
- mirimir 10y ago> Imagine how many pedophile rings would love to remotely watch kids using a built in webcam? Already happening. Access to webcams is sold on dark markets.
- inetknght 10y agoIf you know of it, then report it. Otherwise you're allowing it to exist. If you don't know if it, then this is some fancy way of slashing up FUD about IoT.
- mirimir 10y agoAs I recall, these were Tor onion service gateways. Victims weren't identified. And dark markets generally have an extremely laissez faire attitude toward such matters. So there's nothing to report, and nobody to report it to. If you have IoT devices, it's prudent to periodically scan for connections to the Tor network. Tor Project provides a comprehensive list of relays. A clever adversary can use unpublished bridges, however. But you'll still see traffic to unexpected IPs.