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Crazy Chrysler security hole: USB stick fix incoming for 1.4 million cars

Adam 1

Iot must die

The sooner that we stop stumbling around the opportunities and take the threats with the same level of consideration, the safer we will be.

It just struck me about a discussion I have been having with someone who was complaining about their browser of choice's decision to block a certificate signed with an old broken algorithm. The inconvenience is real, but so is the threat. I was struck because I know they get the same emails as me and that they were again flooded with iot development technology's marketing. A lot of energy went into pushing people into such devices, but there is really nothing on security.

You wouldn't feel safe with a windows vista machine with no patches applied, yet we are building impossible to update firmware into all sorts of gadgets with life expectancies above and beyond. It is a weird world sometimes.

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