Little boxes on the seaside.

Fundamental enabling technology for botnets is mass production, and
re-use of defensive patterns that turn out to have zero-day holes in
them.

It came up in an interview the other day; joking that a reason to use
Forth on an IoT device is that few would be able to figure out how
to get into it.  But that's a security from obscurity, which never
works in the long run.  Defense in depth is needed.

Add to mass production a pervasive network, and globally active
adversaries, and the consequences are obvious.

IoT businesses would be wise to seek their returns as early as
possible, before the product falls to a botnet, then phoenix-like
arise from the ashes under a new name.  Businesses that trade on their
name should be somewhat more careful and conservative.

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James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/
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