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🦕 @dietrich@mastodon.social / 🦋@burrito.space
@dietrich
22 Oct 2016
“Toasters took down the internet!” is a fun headline, but all IoT did was enable attack at a scale that exposed other points of failure.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@davidbaron
22 Oct 2016
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@dietrich
It's more than that; devices are being sold in quantity that weren't designed in a way appropriate for connection to Internet.
Oct 22, 2016 · 3:51 AM UTC
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🦕 @dietrich@mastodon.social / 🦋@burrito.space
@dietrich
22 Oct 2016
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@davidbaron
sure, and these quantities are just the beginning. we still need to fix the points of failure that were exposed.
Fabrice Desré
@fabricedesre
22 Oct 2016
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@davidbaron
@dietrich
But most of these devices should be behind NATs. How are they accessed in the first place?