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> That's limited to specific actors. 1) Anyone who can compromise the residential gateway in your home 2) Anyone & anything connected to the same home network
by aaronmdjones 7y ago
> That's limited to specific actors.
1) Anyone who can compromise the residential gateway in your home
2) Anyone & anything connected to the same home network as you (incl. any IOT devices; and no, they don't need Internet access)
3) Anyone who can compromise the residential gateway in whatever coffee shop you happen to be in
4) Anyone & anything connected to the same coffee shop network as you
5) ...
... and, like I said, easily scriptable, with the tools already available to carry it out.
It's not a doomsday scenario, but it is pretty bad. The one saving grace is that most apps these days use some kind of application-level authentication and/or encryption, e.g. TLS.