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Dishwasher has Directory Traversal Bug

posted by on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the let's-make-the-Internet-squeaky-clean dept.

davidjohnpaul writes:

A directory traversal bug has been found in a Miele dishwasher. This allows access to arbitrary files on the dishwasher's Web server from unauthenticated users. It has been questioned whether appliance makers should be the ones connecting things to networks, since their lack of experience means there isn't even an official channel to report or fix security bugs. Miele are yet to comment.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:06PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:06PM (#485981)

    Yes and maybe hire American engineers rather than cheap H1B visas educated in foreign degree mills and Chinese government agents.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:06PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:06PM (#486049) Journal

    Yes. But that goes back to the deeper problem of being cheap and cutting corners. Putting liability upon the manufacturer for damages caused would suddenly give them an incentive not to do this and other cheap corner cutting. The broken economics of the damage cost is the basic problem. Put the cost of those damages where it belongs. Someone else's business should bear the cost of an attack caused by ten thousand borked webcams cheaply implemented with no security. Put that liability upon the manufacturer of those webcams. (Not the users of them, but the manufacturer.)

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday March 30 2017, @02:23PM (1 child)

      by kaszz (4211) on Thursday March 30 2017, @02:23PM (#486466) Journal

      The result is that lawyers make a profit and corporations with deep wallets will order laws that allow only them to continue to exploit others.

      Investors and lawyers f-cked internet. Don't let them in, ever.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 30 2017, @03:49PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 30 2017, @03:49PM (#486533) Journal

        You left out advertisers. And trolls.

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