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Just a couple years ago, the largest botnet in history infected IOT devices using default passwords in order to DDOS Minecraft servers, so perhaps these strides
by mannerheim 5y ago
Just a couple years ago, the largest botnet in history infected IOT devices using default passwords in order to DDOS Minecraft servers, so perhaps these strides haven't been so massive.
- Grimm1 5y agoIOT isn't datacenter server technology. IOT is basically in the state of software security from 20 years ago. Often running crappy proprietary stuff. Your average server running a recent Linux kernel is Fort Knox comparatively. There have been massive strides in many places in software security but IOT and embedded security in general is very lacking unless your talking things going into space or military.
- dopidopHN 5y agoThe S in IOT stands for security, after all.
- rurban 5y agoThe S in Linux ditto. Linux has a far wider attack surface than my baremetal embedded firmware. Like 10^6 wider. There's a single mqtts service mostly, or just passive senders (sensors, controllers). Zero attack surface. Linux is way too big, with thousands of drivers, services and patches.