A quote from not the current worm's author, but the author of the worm that may be the inspiration for the current one:
>The BrickerBot author argued that it would be better if the devices were destroyed, rather than sit around as cannon fodder for DDoS botnets, and haunting the internet for years.
... yea, broadly I'd agree. IoT vendors are causing a tragedy of the commons, inflicting quite a lot of damage without feeling any of the pain because it hits others.
It's the sort of thing that should be addressed by legislation of some kind, but absent that (which includes nearly all international cases)... what else can you do to stop the worst offenders?
>The BrickerBot author argued that it would be better if the devices were destroyed, rather than sit around as cannon fodder for DDoS botnets, and haunting the internet for years.
... yea, broadly I'd agree. IoT vendors are causing a tragedy of the commons, inflicting quite a lot of damage without feeling any of the pain because it hits others.
It's the sort of thing that should be addressed by legislation of some kind, but absent that (which includes nearly all international cases)... what else can you do to stop the worst offenders?