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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @04:46PM (#12688381)
It's way more likely to affect you than that it making any relevant harm to anybody else.

Do you care about thieves checking your lights from anywhere on the city? And what about your lights launching attacks against your other computers?

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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:01PM (#12689960)
> Do you care about thieves checking your lights from anywhere on the city?

Well, this article (and discussion) is mostly about these devices being sources of DDOS attacks.

> And what about your lights launching attacks against your other computers?

I thought my comment was pretty explicitly clear that most people would not care at all, even if they knew.

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