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Home webcams that were hijacked to help knock popular websites offline last week are being recalled in the US.
Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai issued the recall soon after its cameras were identified as aiding the massive web attacks.
They made access to popular websites, such as Reddit, Twitter, Spotify and many other sites, intermittent.
Security experts said easy-to-guess default passwords, used on Xiongmai webcams, aided the hijacking.
The web attack enrolled thousands of devices that make up the internet of things - smart devices used to oversee homes and which can be controlled remotely.
Will we go through this over and over with toasters, refrigerators, and every other connected appliance?
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Logicians have but ill defined
As rational the human kind.
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 25 2016, @04:37PM
If the rational purchaser in your example is John Q Public then the word security does not even enter the conversation. All they want to to watch their home from their smart phone. Everything else is magic as far as they are concerned.
The manufacturer is responsible for security as they should be well aware of John Q Public's grasp of computer security: zero. So I'm chalking this one up as laziness or incompetence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:46PM
More appropriately, chalk it up to "tragedy of the commons"
Expecting companies to keep the security of the commons up to your snuff for free? I question your reasoning.