[192435] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spitballing IoT Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Fri Oct 28 09:58:43 2016
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:58:36 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1610271535350.26305@soloth.lewis.org>
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 05:13:31PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
> This is one of my bigger concerns every time I buy something that's "cloud
> controlled". Not so much that the manufacturer will force it's retirement,
> but "what happens if they go belly up, or just kill the division that
> supports my device?" A cloud controlled networked device, with no cloud, is
> not terribly useful.
1. This has happened already, e.g., Nest. It will happen again. Many times.
2. Such a device may not be terribly useful *to you*, but in its
neglected, unremarked, unmaintained state it may become very useful
to attackers.
---rsk
