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Re:Mirai Botnets by w8rbt on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:40PM (#12737957)
These devices, when taken as a whole, will be largely vulnerable and there will be enough of them to carry-out enormous DDoS attacks. Our toasters are gonna take down the Internet.
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Re:Mirai Botnets by M_Grey on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:00PM (#12738115)
This is not the rise of the machines that I think anyone was expecting, although I suspect Futurama gave us a bit of preview. DDOS'ed by a toaster... the future is weird.
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Re:Mirai Botnets by andrewflnr on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:31PM (#12738373)
> there are enough of them to carry-out enormous DDoS attacks

Fixed that for you.

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Re:Mirai Botnets by ryanlol on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @04:46PM (#12738532)
No there aren't. "Enormous" would be 15 million conficker nodes hitting someone, not a shitty 500k node "IoT" net.
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Re:Mirai Botnets by M_Grey on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:08PM (#12738724)
5 million conficker nodes hitting someone

I can't be the only person who moaned out loud at that notion, and who also sees no way to stop it. People so often need to be burned to learn about fire, but in this case owning an IoT item is unlikely to burn the owner.

I don't see a good solution to this, that is likely to actually happen, unless as another person said, ISP's just start blacklisting people with compromised IoT devices.

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Re:Mirai Botnets by zzleeper on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:00PM (#12739814)
Why can't Google/Apple/FB et al get together and start blacklisting them? if it gets bad enough, that might be the only chance (good luck getting a random Moldovian ISP to blacklist their spammers)
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Re:Mirai Botnets by ryanlol on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @09:30PM (#12740262)
Maybe because almost everyone is infected with some sort of malware?
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