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A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio]

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Surface area is bigger than ever so there’s all sorts of low hanging fruit still out there. One hacker told me it’s exponentially worse than ever. Eventually we will have global standards but humans are still largely stuck in their totem pole phase.

Is it? I mean I feel like the amount of people putting things straight out to the internet should be more minimal than ever with people just using more private networks these days.

Re: A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio]

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post #3

Surface area is bigger than ever so there’s all sorts of low hanging fruit still out there. One hacker told me it’s exponentially worse than ever. Eventually we will have global standards but humans are still largely stuck in their totem pole phase.

Is it? I mean I feel like the amount of people putting things straight out to the internet should be more minimal than ever with people just using more private networks these days.

UPnP is cancer.

Re: A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio]

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post #3

Surface area is bigger than ever so there’s all sorts of low hanging fruit still out there. One hacker told me it’s exponentially worse than ever. Eventually we will have global standards but humans are still largely stuck in their totem pole phase.

Is it? I mean I feel like the amount of people putting things straight out to the internet should be more minimal than ever with people just using more private networks these days.

The "Internet of Things" trend has brought forward a wide range of new network-enabled devices, that frequently have low security standards.

To give an example...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/3/13507126/iot-drone-hack