New IOT virus does security checking for you

Wifatch is a bit of code that slips through the back door of routers and other IoT devices, closes off Telnet to prevent further infection, and leaves a message telling the owner to change the password and update the device firmware. Wifatch isn’t keeping any secrets, either: most of the code is written in unobfuscated Perl, and there are debug messages that enable easy analysis of the code. This is code that’s meant to be taken apart, and code that includes a comment directed at NSA and FBI agents:

“Organized Common Sense” from this Farnham Street Post

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Normative sociology, the study of what the causes of problems ought to be, greatly fascinates us all

That sums up a lot of the next round of media coverage.  The navel gazing has begun about the killings, namely media criticism about differences in coverage, the deeper motivations of the shooter, making him the internet celebrity he seems to want to be.

Not sure what we’re going to do with him.

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