The Mirai worm is gnawing its way through the Internet of Things and will not stop

Phrenological · December 10, 2016, 1:09am

But still may have known default passwords and are through sheer luck not exploited.

Support-friendly (not necessarily consumer) practices like that remain a problem.

When a device is designed to be online 24/7, it should be secure and not shrug and hope that it’s being placed behind a firewall.

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