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internet of things (IoT)
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2017-02-12 05:06:54 -05:00
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The internet of things refers to an insecure global network of devices
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connected to the internet. After three decades the familiar personal
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computing market had been thoroughly saturated but the internet continued
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to expand beyond its early scope into embedded systems typically having
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a single dedicated purpose, such as electricity meters, thermostats,
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television set-top boxes and childrens toys. The ultra low cost of many
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of these gadgets together with the lack of any incentive to supply them
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with after-market security updates meant that large parts of the IoT
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rapidly turned into a chaotic swamp of botnets periodically pushing out
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DDoS attacks against flavor-of-the-week adversaries as botmasters
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jockeyed for control of the networks.
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