"Technopanic"

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When I see on TV sensationalist “documentaries” on tech like this…

I facepalm seeing the traditional media has once again taken the “technopanic” route to scare people away from technology.

Jeff Jarvis originally coined this term “technopanic” in an interview with the BBC he did 4 years ago calling them out on scare tactics they use to basically keep hammering the point “you’re never safe when the hackers are out…” This is only spreading more misinformation cause there are white hats like PEN testers out there to ensure that doesn’t happen, but NOOOOOOO… The general public is trained like pets to believe all hacking is bad…

(Happened 4 years ago, and all good copies were DMCAed, have a crap cam quality version)

The greater topic is… media misinformation on tech… What are people’s thoughts on it?

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I mean, it’s honestly a good thing, in some respects.

Otherwise companies would just ignore white hat hackers and let people get screwed over by their internet-of-shit devices that have no security built into them.

I’d rather have the general public more cautious than they need to be, than have them completely unaware that their fancy new smart TV already stole their credit card info and gave their employer an insight into how their home life is going.

But that’s just me. I can see how white hat hacking could get bad rap, but is that better than the alternative?

I’m honestly asking for others opinion on this. Not trying to be argumentative, just want honest discussion.

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well the first paragraph is fairly true because IoT and security rarely come together in the same product

still reading

wait what? watch live in 2 days?

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so all there is, is the first paragraph, which I will now say is perfectly acceptable

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“The S in IoT stands for Security.” @wendell

That’s a better summary than what the media is putting out already.

NHK World has an official livestream, so you can use their “Watch Live” with no geographical restrictions.

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Someone should point out Spectre to them , then ? My head stills hurts thinking about it and the possible scope of the impact of it.

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It’s not panic when they really want to wipe us out

Sorry but an IOT chainsaw is just a bad idea
http://www.husqvarnagroup.com/en/node/3349
Quote: "How much IT can you put into a chainsaw?"
Who even thinks this way?

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I agree with Sophia :slight_smile: Destroy normies.

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When you learn how insecure the vast majority of peoples devices are, you would have a panic attack too.

The vast majority, I mean the vast vast majority of android devices are vulnerable due to the RC4 exploit found on wifi still and again, the vast majority of current devices and even devices being sold in stores today will not be patched. This means the vast majority of smart phones are vulnerable to injection attacks on HTTP webpages. And even if 0.1% of attacks are successful, that’s 0.1% of roughly 2 billion devices.

And that’s just one exploit.

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So, it’s airing right now and it’s touched on Honeypots, and the Linux.Mirai exploit that exploits BusyBox with dictionary attacks. It showed the GitHub of the source too.

Edit: Oh boy, now they’re talking about Tor and how “it attracts the attention of criminals.” and they’re showing BTC exchanges on Tor full of drugs, narcotics and etc.

Edit 2: They’re talking about someone who was exposed: Daniel Kaye.

Edit 3: Defcon stock footage…

Edit 4: Now there’s a white hat named Billy Rios doing PEN attacks on medical IoT devices.

./dead.py
BANG! YOU'RE DEAD.
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Actually the points they are making are good.

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So one person is trying to make sh iotguard.sh “within a few years…”

Open source it! Make the Git public! All it is is a process killer, like rkill.

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yeah he was bullshitting … fame is a motivator to show off as a hacker.

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There will always be forks. It’s a neverending cat and mouse game.

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Im more a dogs and bone fellow. :slight_smile:

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They usually throw it up on VOD (also no regional restrictions, but it’s only available for a week) 1-2 days after airing.

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