"Attack bots issue a series of commands that wipe device media, corrupt all storage, and disconnect the device from the internet."
Malware Hunts And Kills Poorly Secured Internet Of Things Devices
Ethan Thompson
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Lincoln Cooper
That's way better than what was happening to them before.
Brody Anderson
5 bucks says the authorities don't even bother going after whoever is running the attack bots.
Kayden Hall
Jesus! how can i protect my juicer?
Brandon Myers
Caleb Jackson
>punishes idiocy
that's ok by me, senpai.
Noah Watson
but where do the attack bots come from?
Alexander Adams
When a mommy and daddy attack bot love eachother very much ..
Henry Perry
sounds like a public service
Levi Nguyen
These people are literally saving human society.
Chase Stewart
DOES THIS MEAN MY TOASTER WILL BE HELPING THOSE COMMUNIST BASTARDS? FUCK OBAMA, GOOD THING TRUMP WILL M A K E A M E R I C A G R E A T A G A I N
Benjamin Brooks
Good. Fuck IoT. My thermostat doesn't need a fucking attack surface that could render me vulnerable to viruses that could realistically freeze my fucking pipes in the winter and destroy my house.
Jaxson Gutierrez
>Install """smart""" thermostat
>It gets bricked by attackbot
>All heating turns off
>Freeze to death
T-thanks ..
Adrian Collins
So it's doing a public service? Why is this a punishable offense again?
Bentley Martin
Software saints doing society a favoue by making IoT die.
Alexander Reyes
Interview with the guy who made the attack bots
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Xavier James
I don't use a """smart""" thermostat at all, what I would love to happen would be for there to be a virus that killed all IoT hardware immediately making it totally unprofitable to sell so people stop fucking producing it. I don't want to ever buy a house that has a smart thermostat, and sometimes it's impossible to tell until it's too late and your property is destroyed.
Cooper Baker
they are playing 10D fiddlesticks
"IoT" is a term coined by semiconductor companies. They all use the same terminology in application notes/advertising/datasheets. IEEE is the place where these multinational megacorp semiconductor manufacturers get together to play 5d chess.
You see standards come out of IEEE, mainly ZigBee, that deal explicitly with the security of IoT SoCs. Yet the Mirai botnet proved that they were hackable in a worst case scenario way. Also anybody who has been a scanner monkey using shodan.io knows that networking gear continues to have shit security (default passwords) even though they come from reputable companies (Cisco, etc...).
The NSA is using the multinational corps of US and allied electronics hubs like Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, to get a leg up in a cyperpunk arms race against China by engineering exploits into products.
It makes sense because China has already done it in the past. They want/need to match this capability or risk getting pwned by the Chinks
Wyatt Rodriguez
So according to your bullshit conspiracy theory, they're putting vunlerable IoT devices out there so whoever the fuck wants to get their hands on them can do so? And this will somehow combat China? Fucking brilliant logic there.
Grayson Peterson
Imagine if these products get used:
you could raise all kinds of hell. It would be like stuxnet.
Oliver Bell
Have you ever noticed ur toaster getting hot? It's the chinks farming bitcoins
Brayden Diaz
Who fucking cares.
Ryder Anderson
I was waiting for someone to do this, I'm glad it's happening, this meme of connecting everything to the internet must die.