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everdayimhustln | 8 years ago

Pervasive IoT device deployment without in-the-wild security considerations and rapid updates is likely to add to DDoS bot farms.

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hellbanner|8 years ago

You're a little late - the Mirai botnet (Larget botnet at the time it became widely known) is exactly that.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-m...

samstave|8 years ago

Ive always wondered if "anna senpai" is a play on "ono sendai" -- the infamous Cyberpunk EvilCorp deck...

I personally feel that it is. (maybe tis was already obvious to others - I just havent talked about it out oud to anyone prior...)

jMyles|8 years ago

So?

Every single thread of this nature has a similar comment, and I really want to know (ie, I want to hear this fully fleshed out because I think your concerns are valid and worth exploring): is this demonstrative of a new (or in some way more valid) notion of the word "hacker" in "hacker news?"

My sense of that word, and of the culture that underlying it, is that a critical part of its critique is that obscurity, specifically in its implications for security (and thus, perhaps civility and peace and justice), is subject to deprecation in the information age, precisely in favor of styles of disclosure like this: where the pudding for the tasting is provided as the proof.

Have I missed something very important?

minitech|8 years ago

What? If there’s a question there, could you ask it in a straightforward manner, please?