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Re: IoT security, was Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Oct 9 13:28:54 2016

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <3D9FCEDE-806F-40D4-BA39-4EC5CA211E17@beckman.org>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 13:28:40 -0400
Cc: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
 "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:31:54 -0000, Mel Beckman said:

> I just bought a $20 Lacrosse remote RF temperature sensor hub for home, the
> GW-1000U. It does the usual IoT things: after you plug it in, it gets a DHCP
> address and phones home, then you register it using a smartphone on the same
> LAN, which I'm guessing finds the device via a broadcast and then configures
> the hub with my Lacrosse account info. All communication is thereafter through
> the cloud.

That last sentence is sub-optimal.  And as you note, things go downhill from
there....

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