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TIL that someone actually made malware that seems out unsecured IOT devices, infects them, and then BRICKS them:
Someone in the comments days that 'tis a pity that this malware isn't an omnipresent threat, rather than being released in bursts, which... I guess kind of illustrates how fucked up the IOT field is.
@tariqk yup. BrickerBit might become the only thing close to an incentive for manufacturers to make at all secured devices. people don't go and buy the same connected camera if they googled the reason why it stopped working and see that it'll just happen again.