On 2016-10-23 15:46, jim deleskie wrote: > Sure lets sue people because they put too many/bad packets/packets I don't > like on the internet. Do you think this will really solve the porblem? Do > you think we'll not just all end up with internet prices like US medical > care prices?
If this were to get to a court of law, would there be proof that products Axis IP Camera Inc or Panasonic or even Xerox Printers were (partly) responsible for the attack ? Won't they deflect this to trying to find those who hacked their products ? Won't they deflect this to onwers who did not secure their networks from inbound telnet ? And do those units really declare their port 23 to the NAT router via UPnP ? that is really really stupid. One problem with consumer goods is lack of documentation and support. Could years back, I got a very early Smart RG DSL modem specially modified to work on Bell Canada's non standard VDSL dslams. No instruction manual, no documentation. I found a number of bugs in the software, and sent a lengthy email to document them. As an early adopter, I wanted to help the company fix those before wider deployment. (and yes, the units have a command line, and from the command line you can get into a linux shell). The response I got: Unless you sign a contract with one of our distributors, you cannot report bugs. Unfortunately, this appears to be widespread with consumer goods vendors who sell sophisticated devices without documentation or support.