[Cryptography] Anyone else seeing an uptick in infected IoT devices? New botnet?

[Tom Mitchell]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
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> On 12/07/2016 06:26 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
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> > Ugh, as soon as I saw the title of that first one I thought "TR-069", and
> > sure enough



> :...
> > If ever there was a protocol was designed to be insecure, it's that.
>
> ....

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> Hooboy.  We need to focus more on educating the public, don't we?
>
>
Yes, but what might the "public do?".

Vendors need to be roasted and toasted.
Blocks of MAC address may need to be hobbled.

As a global issue counting the number of languages the
instructions need to be translated into is enough to give an honest
perspective into to the depth of the problem.

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  T o m    M i t c h e l l
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