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Re:Fear of litigation may be key to security on the Internet... by caseymarquis on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:03AM (#13939010)
How is it that IoT devices are compromised? I'd figure that most would be sitting in an environment where there are no incoming connections allowed without some amount of user action. Which means either the network is already compromised, or something more complex is going on?
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Re:Fear of litigation may be key to security on the Internet... by coldpie on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:56AM (#13939723)
Hahaha, oh, buddy. No. These manufacturers are much stupider. These things hook straight up to the Internet, wide open telnet ports with hard-coded default passwords.

The quickest example I have to hand, sorry it's on Twitter. I'm sure you can find others. https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/799556482719162368

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