A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices

Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by cs02rm0 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:42AM (#20283024)

I was joking, but it's sort of my point - who's exposing IoT devices to the internet?

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Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by deadbunny on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:10AM (#20284569)

The kind of people who are not HN readers.

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Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by sdinsn on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:02PM (#20288071)

Lots of people.

One of the selling points of things like smart thermostats is the you can remotely control them; you can set them to your preferred temperature as you are traveling home so it will be nice when you arrive.

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Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by cs02rm0 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:17PM (#20288697)

And those thermostats are open on the internet? Not connecting out to an intermediate server that you also remotely connect to?

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Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by martin__ on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:40AM (#20283335)

All IoT devices are exposed to the internet by design. That's what the "I" stands for, Internet.

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Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by henryfjordan on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @02:10PM (#20287570)

But are the addressable?

My IoT devices are on my network but you would need to get yourself inside my network to talk to them. I'm not exposing ports for my lights...

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Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by okmokmz on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:16PM (#20288209)

Most people, as many of the devices are exposed by default

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Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by SmellyGeekBoy on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @05:45AM (#20283368)

People use them as intended?

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