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If you have seen electric wiring inside houses from 1920's, that's the state of IoT and internet connected devices today. Bad things must happen first for stan
by Nokinside 7y ago
If you have seen electric wiring inside houses from 1920's, that's the state of IoT and internet connected devices today. Bad things must happen first for standardization and regulation to happen.
Consumer devices and gadgets are not my main concern. Internet connected building automation is in similar sorry state. Someone will do large scale apartment automation systems attack, maybe just single manufacturer is targeted and as a result 5-15% of apartments go nuts at once. Just messing with the air conditioning can kill old and sick people until things get fixed.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y agoMessing with the air conditioning can affect a lot more than just the people who have the vulnerable IoT air conditioner, if it manages to bring the grid down. The grid is able to cope with fluctuations in demand, but that's a totally different ballgame than switching massive loads on and off, synchronized to within something like 20 milliseconds (a single 50 Hz cycle), in a controlled, intentional and malicious way - and potentially worse, the attacker could observe the grid and react to the countermeasures (e.g. to detect how quickly the grid reacts, and trigger oscillations in some system never designed to deal with something like that).