Re:The three million toothbrush botnet story isn't true
by miki123211 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @04:56PM
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> Most JavaCard platforms have no support for IP networking, which would make it an unlikely source of DDoS
I'm not claiming that you could use a smart card for DDoS (the idea seems absurd, but somebody is probably going to prove me wrong one of these days), merely that if some version of Java runs on a smartcard, I don't find it that unimaginable for a toothbrush to have a good enough chip to run Java, perhaps with enough resources for a TCP / IP stack. Something equivalent in performance to an old, WAP-capable phone that also ran Java ME, perhaps.
I'm not claiming that you could use a smart card for DDoS (the idea seems absurd, but somebody is probably going to prove me wrong one of these days), merely that if some version of Java runs on a smartcard, I don't find it that unimaginable for a toothbrush to have a good enough chip to run Java, perhaps with enough resources for a TCP / IP stack. Something equivalent in performance to an old, WAP-capable phone that also ran Java ME, perhaps.