DDoS Of Things -

[Razer]

On 09/28/2016 10:31 AM, Sean Lynch takes the words right out of my mouth:

> The Internet is starting to feel a lot more like feudalism,


What I stated a while back about my reasons for never getting involved
in the computer industry as a way to earn my bucks... I don't get along
with fewdal punkz and hypercompetitive-hyperagressives reel well. So
what did they do? They FUCKED the whole 'Fucking thing'.

Rr


> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net
> <mailto:admin at pilobilus.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 09/27/2016 11:21 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>     > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net
>     <mailto:mirimir at riseup.net>> wrote:
>     >> Yes, it's for sure a hard problem. Any entity resourceful enough to
>     >> withstand Tbps DDoS is likely a huge privacy risk :(
>     >>
>     >> On the other hand, Krebs has been totally asking for it, for years ;)
>     >> He's been going after major cybercriminals, who perhaps have major
>     >> connections with global TLAs. And he's often been a jerk about it.
>     >> Hugely self-righteous, and humorless. So meh ;)
>     >
>     > He's already been swatted, manure mailed for lols, etc.
>     > Though being AP'd by the cybers is probably unlikely.
> 
>     Meanwhile the Big DDoS has apparently been mitigated by Akamai or
>     somebody.
> 
> 
> It was mitigated by Google's Project Shield. The Internet is starting to
> feel a lot more like feudalism, where you have to swear fealty to some
> lord or get overrun by barbarian hordes. Or, I guess, the way all
> governments want us to feel about the world. "Bad guys" like this are a
> government's best friend. Or a megacorp's.
>  
> 
>     What bothers me is not this particular instance, but the proof of
>     concept it represents, in a world where everything from refrigerators to
>     night lights phones home.  Things present a very diffuse and low-reward
>     attack surface individually, but as reflectors they provide a potential
>     solar-furnace-like effect in the hands of a sophisticated attacker.
> 
> 
> But the fact that they blew their wad early on a low-value target like
> Krebs means that the issue will get attention. Of course, if the cost to
> any given end user or their ISP is small enough, perhaps it won't be enough.
>  
> 
>     "Physical access is game over" so it may turn out that whoever owns the
>     most Things wins after all.
> 
> 
> Ownership of Things is not permanent, though. Maintaining a botnet is a
> neverending battle.
>