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I, too, wish to punish people for daring to own something that might have a zero-day.
by iikoolpp 7y ago
I, too, wish to punish people for daring to own something that might have a zero-day.
- Nextgrid 7y agoAre we talking about zero days here or obvious vulnerabilities known for decades but nothing gets done because there’s no cost associated with leaving it insecure? I strongly suspect the latter.
- roywiggins 7y agoHow are you supposed know what chipsets are in your smart lightbulb?
- myself248 7y agoThe negative externalities of owning vulnerable devices need to come home to roost at some point, yeah. I've chosen to own a "dumb" (read: "reliable") washing machine, and it cannot be used in such an attack. I have to endure the indignity of peeking downstairs to see if I left clothes in it, which is a cost of sorts, but it's nowhere near the cost I'd expect to bear if I bought a vulnerable washing machine and it provided resources to knock Wikipedia off the internet. What other disincentive to putting vulnerable devices on the internet do you propose?