Re:A vigilante trying to improve IoT security
by eropple on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:33PM
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Open telnet servers are a solved problem (taking the solution off the rack is a question of time and, effectively, the willingness to be negligent). The automation exists.
It's the hard stuff that is context- and environment-dependent to a degree that it resists automation.
> security is inherently and inescapably expensive somewhere in the chain
...is the thing that needs to change. Presumably using more automation (e.g. employing more software like http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/), such that "pen-testing" shifts from being a labor cost to a capital cost.