Wouldn't it be great if compromised systems could be forced offline without having to beg and plead with their internet providers first?
wrong approach, I think: it can open ways of taking down content (webservers are 'devices'... database servers too)
I think the suggestion of OP (make IoT manufacturers liable for their devices' participation in such an attack) much better
People adore to use the "but Gloogle too" talk here...
While not a big fan, Google is one of the less "evil" (but evil enough to be not trustworthy....) corporations out there
Write your own business software. Why trust some closed source software with your business? That is just like giving all your corporate data too Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.
FTFY
* legaly, here on Brazil, it can't be done (but many local governments already do...)
But Linux doesn't run any of my business software.
You know https://www.winehq.org/, don't you? And if that can't help, noting stops you from using a VM on some desktops (on http://serpro.gov.br/ is that way now - an slow change [of several years] for a big company, since they choosed to only uns Linux on their desktops... [ex-employee here])
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fanboism alert!
you know http://www.cyanogenmod.org/, don't you?
How opensource software can be called "vendor-lock-in"?
there's a good point here: to blame someone else for your incompetence!
wrong approach, I think: it can open ways of taking down content (webservers are 'devices'... database servers too) I think the suggestion of OP (make IoT manufacturers liable for their devices' participation in such an attack) much better
Security team focused on something else...
http://sitedosmenes.tumblr.com...
what a piece of crap! :P
"Me too" included
Lord Xenu must take it as an offense!
I still use flickr, you insensitive clod! (but in a disposable account mode: if Yahoo is blown-up, nothing mine of value is lost...)
People adore to use the "but Gloogle too" talk here... While not a big fan, Google is one of the less "evil" (but evil enough to be not trustworthy....) corporations out there
exacltly
You don't get it!
It's written in the Bible, on Isaias 69:171
FTFY * legaly, here on Brazil, it can't be done (but many local governments already do...)
You know https://www.winehq.org/, don't you? And if that can't help, noting stops you from using a VM on some desktops (on http://serpro.gov.br/ is that way now - an slow change [of several years] for a big company, since they choosed to only uns Linux on their desktops... [ex-employee here])
It's written on the Bible!
So transparent that up to citizen's e-mail are published! It's written on the Bible!
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
It's in the Bible: Isaac 69:171
Yeap, it's in the Bible!
Every 48h (46h26m, to be fully pedantic) :P
an it's called "reverse-proxy", I think...
what a lack of focus! * does it has an earphone jack?