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RE: AWS Elastic IP architecture

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Mikulasik)
Wed Jun 3 13:38:41 2015

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From: Steve Mikulasik <Steve.Mikulasik@civeo.com>
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 17:29:04 +0000
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IoT says your toaster will be uploading your breakfast to 10 social media a=
ccounts and your socks will be connected to the hospital. Your fridge is al=
so a spambot now too!

http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-use-a-refridgerator-to-attack-busine=
sses-2014-1

IoT means everything gets hacked. Maybe someone can make Cryptolocker to lo=
ck you out of your fridge until you pay a ransom. We are entering a whole n=
ew era of exciting vulnerabilities.=20

Steve Mikulasik

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Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 11:12 AM
To: Matthew Kaufman
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Subject: Re: AWS Elastic IP architecture

On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:35:11 -0700, Matthew Kaufman said:
> Ah, the "IPv6 subnets are so big you can't find the hosts" myth.
>
> Let's see... to find which hosts are active in IPv6 I can:
> - run a popular web service that people connect to, revealing their=20
> addresses

If your vulnerable laser printer or webcam is calling out to Hotmail or Goo=
gle or whatever, you got *bigger* problems, dude....


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