An 14-year-old's Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands

Yeah, it was only after I posted that I discovered “fuel injection technician” is an actual proper job, with some skill and know-how involved. (Not that I didn’t bring LOTS of skill and know-how to my petroleum transfers, of course…)

And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W’s
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean ‘n’ ugly
‘n’ nasty ‘n’ horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, “Kid, whad’ya get?” I said, “I didn’t get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage.” He said, “What were you arrested for, kid?”
And I said, “Littering.” And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, “And creating a nuisance.” And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench.

Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant

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The sad thing is, I misread the headline as ‘A 14 year old IOT worm’ and not ‘A 14 year old’s IOT worm’ and it didn’t even register. IOT security is so bad I really wouldn’t be surprised if someone dug up old malware from yesteryear and found it works against them today.

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They’ll fix the problem by making all devices start tied to the mothership umbilical. What could go wrong?

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Pfft. If you want to do something impressive, write that worm to secure those shitty IOT devices and move on.

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Yeah, but ultimately it just rewards the makers of shitty IOT devices and they won’t ever learn.

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Stop calling the hacker “Light”. That name’s already taken by Death Note.

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