Possible Vendetta Behind the East Coast Web Slowdown
For a long time, I&#x27;ve wondered what would finally be the Securitypocalypse, the thing that finally caused our industry as a whole to take security seriously. These IoT DDoS attacks are as good a candidate as any I&#x27;ve seen in a long time. They are fundamentally very difficult to fix in light of the non-updateability of many of these devices, and this is only the beginning, because the IoT has hardly begun to develop. And in the short-term, I&#x27;m not sure I see any hope, because the forces that make people throw out cheap devices with broken firmwares with no update capability aren&#x27;t going away.<p>If we could somehow mandate that these devices were supported with firmware updates for the indefinite future, that would simply destroy the entire market. And you can&#x27;t do that, because even the devices created by an entity that no longer exists and didn&#x27;t sell its IP to anybody else will eventually be enough to do these DDoSes, if they aren&#x27;t already.