Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:22:04 -0400, Jean-Francois Mezei said:

10s of millons of IP addresses. Is it realistic to have 10s of millions of infected devices ? Or is that the dense smoke that points to IP spoofing ?

A few years ago, Vint Cerf gave a keynote speech at a conference, where he claimed that there were 140 million pwned devices on the Internet - and this was before IoT was itself a thing. Not one person in the security industry called bullshit and said the number was too high. There were however a lot of people who thought Cerf had significantly lowballed the estimate.