we are talking about cheap home dsl routers here. i doubt that these would be responsible for collapse of the economy.
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Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months agoI was more thinking about all the services that rely on internet access to function. Like most economic systems would basically crash or grind to a halt.
There are a lot of products that don’t really need to be connected to the internet to do their job but are being connected anyways and would get bricked if access to the internet didn’t work. For example internet connected security cameras that don’t have cables connecting to where the data is being stored would be shot as well.
I mean the extent of the damage is really dependent on how the malware was spread which we don’t know yet so still mostly speculation on how damaging it could be.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 5 months ago
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 months ago
offline porn
Mobile data plans exist… just saying 😁
PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It’s the end point modem+router. It’s like saying removing the landline phone from people’s house without destroy the exchange boxes would cripple communication. It’s not cause they are easily replaced.
jarfil@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Security cameras, or other security devices, including ATMs, or some alarm systems, sound compatible with attacking a single ASN: if the attacker knew the IP pool assigned to their target, and the possible modem/router model, targeting the ASN would guarantee taking down their actual target… plus some 600,000 “collateral damage” as a smoke screen.