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Today the web was broken by countless hacked devices – your 60-second summary

Metrognome

Re: Home Router Traffic @Metrognome

I'm fully with you on that. I operate under the assumption that everything is indeed compromised and then work backwards to see if anything was worth securing or not. But in the case of elderly relatives and associated clueless people, uPNP just works and it's good enough for them and their needs.

As for DDoS'ing some unknown place, they couldn't care less and there's no way they'd start fiddling with any settings outside the default ones for the sake of no one. Hell, they hardly even do this for their own safety and on their own mobile phones, what makes you think they'd start now caring about DDoS-ing?

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