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What if instead of all this headline seeking nonsense governments addressed the problem of hundreds of millions of vulnerable IoT devices?
by alecco 5y ago
What if instead of all this headline seeking nonsense governments addressed the problem of hundreds of millions of vulnerable IoT devices?
- edoceo 5y agoToo practical. Just making the world better doesn't let you pad your resume or put your fingerprint on some recent hotness. Sadly, infrastructure work is largely ignored - until it isn't - and then the failure is all your fault!!
- PeterisP 5y agoThose millions of vulnerable IoT devices don't have that much of an impact to strategic infrastructure, even compared to just individual separate ransomware incidents at large organizations.
- pjmorris 5y agoIf someone pwns your IOT device that's your problem. If someone pwns the SWIFT network, that's the financial system's problem. borrowed from... "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem." - J. Paul Getty
- nradov 5y agoExcept that an adversary can use a large botnet of pwned consumer IoT devices to conduct DoS attacks against the financial system (and other critical infrastructure).
- alecco 5y agoThanks, that was the point I thought would be obvious for HN crowd. Also unprotected IoT devices provide ways to protect the attackers.
- namibj 5y agoSWIFT runs on dark fiber, or at least MPLS circuits, not the public internet.
- nradov 5y agoRight I didn't mean to imply that SWIFT itself was vulnerable to DoS attacks, just that other parts of the financial system could be disrupted.
- selfhoster11 5y agoIt has access points from the public internet too.