On 12/09/05, Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
It doesn't scare us... ever try nmaping a /48?
one host at a time? from a single point? nope - once v6 becomes common enough someone will just write a nice little distributed botnet to propagate around it. who wants nmap when all you need is to throw enough common exploits blindly at a series of hosts? the era of carefully crafted exploits against a single large host is almost dead, except for really high value hosts. botnets are kind of an industrial revolution in this area
digital set-top boxes and tv's that need bi-directional communication to unwrap drm, That's order of a billion or so devices in the US over the next 10 years.
a TV botnet will probably leave your channel locked onto a 24x7 feed of Barney the big purple dinosaur and ... AAAH THE TENTACLES But seriously, computing power that people would use for moon landings a few years back is available on ubiquitous home devices that were never intended to be connected to the internet. Security is something that really must be taken into account now, before it starts to become a problem --srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)