* Posts by wojo

2 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2017

The S in IoT stands for security. You'll never secure all the Things

wojo

A little of the other side, no doom & gloom

Those medical devices running Windows? Not exactly an IoT thing. Many of them are large systems costing north of $500,000.

And the IT staff knows about deprecated OSes.

That's why those old Windows systems are walled off with access to only the network traffic they need to have.

Security may not be in the device, but it is around it.

First-day-on-the-job dev: I accidentally nuked production database, was instantly fired

wojo

Holy crap...

The yutz that wrote the documentation should be the one escorted out the door. Geez... You should _never_ put production passwords in new hire documentation....