[191695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sun Sep 25 18:26:57 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 23:26:48 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> The sad thing is that if we boot out grandma they will just switch to one
> of our competors and the TV will still be a bot. You can't win.
Good thing the smart TV / other IoT manufacturers have taken the
responsible approach and have committed to providing lifetime software
updates for all the Internet-connected devices they manufacture.
Nick
