Re:Mirai Botnets
by M_Grey on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:08PM
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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.
Re:Mirai Botnets
by zzleeper on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:00PM
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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)
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.