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Pervasive IoT device deployment without in-the-wild security considerations and rapid updates is likely to add to DDoS bot farms.

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You're a little late - the Mirai botnet (Larget botnet at the time it became widely known) is exactly that.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-m...

That story - Wow! Did anything ever happen to the author?

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428824

Supposed Reddit comment from the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5nqq3c/serious_p...

Their last post is Jul 17, but there's signature and even if there was, how would we ever know.

Ive always wondered if "anna senpai" is a play on "ono sendai" -- the infamous Cyberpunk EvilCorp deck...

I personally feel that it is. (maybe tis was already obvious to others - I just havent talked about it out oud to anyone prior...)

I think the pseudonym "Anna senpai" is in reference to the Japanese media trope of schoolchildren falling in love with their senpai.

<Wipes hands with oily rag, looking at motor...>

Well,now... there's my problem right there... Jus' don' know much 'bout them japanese now doncha.

<rocks back and forth with thumbs on the straps of my filthy coveralls, spits...>

Yep yep yep is what I always say...

<heads back into dilapidated datacenter behind squeaky screen door only holding on by one hinge>

They said in an interview -- it's a .txt file linked somewhere on the krebs site, that AS is a villian in an anime

So?

Every single thread of this nature has a similar comment, and I really want to know (ie, I want to hear this fully fleshed out because I think your concerns are valid and worth exploring): is this demonstrative of a new (or in some way more valid) notion of the word "hacker" in "hacker news?"

My sense of that word, and of the culture that underlying it, is that a critical part of its critique is that obscurity, specifically in its implications for security (and thus, perhaps civility and peace and justice), is subject to deprecation in the information age, precisely in favor of styles of disclosure like this: where the pudding for the tasting is provided as the proof.

Have I missed something very important?

What? If there’s a question there, could you ask it in a straightforward manner, please?

OK, I'll try. :-)

Are there good reasons to believe that obscurity (ie, keeping secret the means and methods of attack) is likely to be a viable defense in favor of civility and justice in the age to come?

No. Does the parent comment imply that somehow? (Did the reply end up on the wrong comment?)

Oh my goodness. Yes. :-)

I meant to reply to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14660862

Sorry about the confusion.

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