Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming...
by enraged_camel on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @11:55PM
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This is a Bad Idea, because you have no way of knowing whether the devices you are "counter-hacking" are simple IoT devices or if they perform a critical function of some sort. The last thing you want to do is accidentally take offline/brick an Internet-connected medical device or computer at a hospital ER room, for instance, since it might literally result in someone's death.
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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming...
by the8472 on Sunday October 16, 2016 @08:18PM
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That sounds like a "but think of the children" argument to me. We can conjure up ways how anything can go wrong.
But should we really worry about that scenario? If you have internet-exploitable and already-exploited devices in the ER room, haven't the horses left the barn already?