Great. Just great.
We had a nice internet there, but it's been fucked by idiots with wifi candles.
And I thought the dick-pill emails were bad...
IoT botnet swells
The Mirai botnet has swollen to nearly 500,000 IoT compromised devices since source code for the malware was released at the start of October. The figures, taken from a new analysis by telco Level3, are a particular concern because Mirai was made up of only around 125K devices when it was abused to direct a 620 Gbps flood at …
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Thursday 20th October 2016 17:43 GMT Charles 9
Re: Great. Just great.
"Who owns Amazon, Facebook, Google, eBay, Maplin etc?"
People who could easily end up in someplace like Antigua with no extradition agreements.
"Where are the regulatory offices?"
Where could the corporate headquarters be moved so that these offices can't reach them?
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Thursday 20th October 2016 10:02 GMT Dan 55
Govts needs to get a grip on it and now
A new or current standards body which sets security guidelines and fails products which don't follow them. Products which fail review don't get to market. It also needs teeth to fine heavily, force recalls, and force withdrawal from market if the manufacturer doesn't comply or offer security updates.
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Thursday 20th October 2016 10:28 GMT Geronimo!
Re: Govts needs to get a grip on it and now
Would be a good idea, weren't it for certain Asian countries to not give a sh*t about those rules and "building" (badly copying) vulnerable IoThingies and selling them.
The amount of pirated and illegal "copies" you can buy on Amazon, Ebay and co is astonishing.
And even if other governments find out about these things being sold and banning the device or even the manufacturer: They'll just rebrand them and sell them anyway.
So, yes: responsibility should be with the manufacturer, providing secure IoThings. But main culprit is the horrendous ignorance, carelessness and plain stupidity "users" with which behave when it comes to AllThingsInternet.
Virusscan? Don't need it,
Use a firewall? No, I have nothing to hide.
Buying music? No, I'll download some malware-infected RAR-File, that's cheaper
Pay more money for decent appliances? Hell no, this (mostly Asian) costs only 1/10th and does exactly the same...
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Thursday 20th October 2016 12:15 GMT Dan 55
Re: Govts needs to get a grip on it and now
Amazon and eBay can be fined if they don't do something about it as they have offices in the UK, that leaves the likes of Aliexpress which operates completely outside the UK. The point is making people go out of their way to get something crappy instead of now where people have to go out of their way to find something decent.
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Thursday 20th October 2016 17:44 GMT Charles 9
Re: Govts needs to get a grip on it and now
"Amazon and eBay can be fined if they don't do something about it as they have offices in the UK,"
And how soon would those office CLOSE if the law gets too close?
That's the thing with international companies; they can play sovereignty against you.
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Thursday 20th October 2016 12:08 GMT jms222
Ebay
It doesn't help that vendors of complete shite, not just IoT stuff can't be given bad reviews or rather Ebay make it incredibly difficult to do so (after n days but not after m days after resolution and never about the product itself).
It's about time Ebay (not so much Amazon who at least take stuff back no question) took more responsibility. Start with 18650 cells with impossible capacities. Make sellers declare original manufacturer and part number (bearing in mind these cells are typically recycled which I don't disagree with but no reason why they can't be made to declare current measured capacity and ESR) and stop new vendors popping up selling the same stuff.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
