Re:Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’...
by myself248 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:27PM
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The negative externalities of owning vulnerable devices need to come home to roost at some point, yeah.
I've chosen to own a "dumb" (read: "reliable") washing machine, and it cannot be used in such an attack. I have to endure the indignity of peeking downstairs to see if I left clothes in it, which is a cost of sorts, but it's nowhere near the cost I'd expect to bear if I bought a vulnerable washing machine and it provided resources to knock Wikipedia off the internet.
What other disincentive to putting vulnerable devices on the internet do you propose?
I've chosen to own a "dumb" (read: "reliable") washing machine, and it cannot be used in such an attack. I have to endure the indignity of peeking downstairs to see if I left clothes in it, which is a cost of sorts, but it's nowhere near the cost I'd expect to bear if I bought a vulnerable washing machine and it provided resources to knock Wikipedia off the internet.
What other disincentive to putting vulnerable devices on the internet do you propose?