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I feel like stuff like this shouldn't be anywhere near the internet. Partly because of reasons like this where the manufacturer can just randomly decide to disa
by rstat1 2y ago
I feel like stuff like this shouldn't be anywhere near the internet. Partly because of reasons like this where the manufacturer can just randomly decide to disable it, but also because its usually the software equivalent of Swiss cheese.
- forgetfreeman 2y agoI feel the same way about cars, lightbulbs, and thermostats.
- echoangle 2y agoI’m not saying those things are safe but isn’t the attack surface pretty limited if you are behind NAT/a pretty basic firewall? The only connection to the internet should be the device reaching out to a server and asking for an update from time to time, it shouldn’t really be reachable from the outside. Unless the update server is compromised too, I don’t really see what can happen.
- shakna 2y agoOnly if that attack surface doesn't include employees, household members, contractors, shared spaces, etc. That is, a small business may be fairly safe if they're no cohabiting. A corporation probably isn't.
- relistan 2y agoIn this case the manufacturer was the one that triggered it. Even if it weren’t, how secure their servers are, or which foreign legislation they are subject to is a total unknown.