A Tale from the Early Days of Busting Hackers [audio] (opens in new tab)

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26 pointsdunsany8y ago6 comments

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xs8y ago

Hey if you like stories like this, then you'd love my podcast. https://darknetdiaries.com.

Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

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.

rando4448y ago

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.

ZenoArrow8y ago

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

tjoff8y ago

UPnP is cancer.

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