{"id":1005,"date":"2017-04-27T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T06:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2017-04-27T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T06:03:38","slug":"this-hacker-is-my-new-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/this-hacker-is-my-new-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"This Hacker Is My New Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet vigilante to the rescue? Someone &#8211; or some group of people &#8211; decided the best way to save the Internet from the scourge of <a href=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/new-security-camera-compromised-by-worm-within-minutes-of-installation-twitter-com\/\">insecure IoT devices<\/a> is to disable them permanently. I like how he\/she\/they describes his\/her\/their project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-hacker-is-my-new-hero-1794630960\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hyghtqy1vwzkcxv3ubib.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I consider my project a form of \u201cInternet Chemotherapy\u201d I sometimes jokingly think of myself as The Doctor. Chemotherapy is a harsh treatment that nobody in their right mind would administer to a healthy patient, but the Internet was becoming seriously ill in Q3 and Q4\/2016 and the moderate remedies were ineffective. The side effects of the treatment were harmful but the alternative (DDoS botnet sizes numbering in the millions) would have been worse. I can only hope hope that when the IoT relapse comes we\u2019ll have better ways to deal with it. Besides getting the number of IoT DDoS bots to a manageable level my other key goal has been to raise awareness. The IoT problem is much worse than most people think, and I have some alarming stories to tell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-hacker-is-my-new-hero-1794630960\">This Hacker Is My New Hero<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet vigilante to the rescue? Someone &#8211; or some group of people &#8211; decided the best way to save the Internet from the scourge of insecure IoT devices is to disable them permanently. I like how he\/she\/they describes his\/her\/their project. I consider my project a form of \u201cInternet Chemotherapy\u201d I sometimes jokingly think of myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}