Re:A vigilante trying to improve IoT security
by squarefoot on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:05PM
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> until one of those improperly configured devices are a medical device or something critical.
Medical or critical devices should never be exposed to the Internet, especially if badly configured. If there's something illegal involved here is putting lives at risk by not implementing proper security.
If I had to find an analogy, that's like someone hung a grand piano using a shoestring from a roof and the hacker cuts the string letting the piano fall at 4:00 in the morning before it breaks later with much higher probability of killing people.
It's still a dangerous and wrong act, but it prevents a much worse one.
Re:A vigilante trying to improve IoT security
by MertsA on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:11PM
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To play devil's advocate on that, if there's some super sensitive life support system that's indirectly connected to the internet it's probably going to be turned off until it's actually in use.
Medical or critical devices should never be exposed to the Internet, especially if badly configured. If there's something illegal involved here is putting lives at risk by not implementing proper security.
If I had to find an analogy, that's like someone hung a grand piano using a shoestring from a roof and the hacker cuts the string letting the piano fall at 4:00 in the morning before it breaks later with much higher probability of killing people. It's still a dangerous and wrong act, but it prevents a much worse one.