Why-Fi?
The Verge
 @verge
9 Feb 2021
Weber’s latest gas grills have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and digital displays theverge.com/2021/2/9/222747…
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anyway once upon a time i worked at a company that made smart shit and someone accidentally made 30000 of them call the.......marketing server........every day at 5pm....and keep trying if it didn't respond

Feb 11, 2021 · 4:12 AM UTC

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developer bliss
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I have been working with telco equipment, customer premises equipment for years. For a long time, I felt that I was the only one that understood exponential backoff. Our vendors did not...
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Wasn’t a certain model of WiFi router DDoSing a single NTP server because it was hard-coded in the firmware? I think that has actually happened more than once.
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If that shit's so "smart", why does it need to look-up how to do it's damn job on the internet? They should be called "insecure" devices because both definitions of the word apply!
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You should see the mobile carrier DDOS that occurs when Androids can't reach Google.
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No it was the random company that wasn't us that made the firmware
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Lol man it's weird because I literally worked at a utility that does this too once and this is scarily familiar 😂
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