[192437] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spitballing IoT Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Hickstein)
Fri Oct 28 12:32:49 2016
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jim Hickstein <jxh@jxh.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:07:17 -0500
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On 10/27/16 22:59, bzs@TheWorld.com wrote:
> What would the manufacturers' response be if this virus had instead
> just shut down, possibly in some cases physically damaged the devices
> or otherwise caused them to cease functioning ever again (wiped all
> their software or broke their bootability), rather than just hijacked
> them for a while?
A virus that kills its host (too much of the time) is not successful.
