IoT Security Is So Bad, There's a Search Engine For Sleeping Kids (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Shodan, a search engine for the Internet of Things (IoT), recently launched a new section that lets users easily browse vulnerable webcams. The feed includes images of marijuana plantations, back rooms of banks, children, kitchens, living rooms, garages, front gardens, back gardens, ski slopes, swimming pools, colleges and schools, laboratories, and cash register cameras in retail stores. While IoT manufacturers are to blame, this also highlights the creepy stuff you can do with Shodan these days. At the start of January, Check Point recommended companies to block Shodan's crawlers. The infosec community came to defend Shodan, and even its founder said that Shodan is uselessly branded as a tool of evil, saying that attackers have their own scanning tools.

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Re:Johnny can't encrypt

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey moron, brilliant people make spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, and type-os all the time. Their brains have more important things to do than obsess over minutia that are of secondary importance. Pointing such a trivial mistake in no way negates the point, nor does it make you look impressive.

It makes you look like a petty little snot that is trying to compensate for his own limitations by fixating on some valueless thing that makes an easy target.

Grow up.