Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras

Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by riskable on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @09:04AM (#12692394)

I like your sentiment but merely disconnecting the antenna isn't good enough. That just results in bad reception which often results in power being boosted which can introduce a lot of unnecessary noise into the WiFi RF spectrum.

I don't see any way around implementing them as bog standard "RFKill" switches. A software switch is basically the only way to go because the WiFi chips are controlled in software.

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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by idlewords on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @11:48AM (#12693889)

Thanks for pointing that out. I'm happy with a software kill switch, as long as it's provably isolated from the rest of the system.

The nub of the idea is a legal requirement for a physical switch that will in all cases immediately disconnect the device from the network.

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