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athenot on Oct 28, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pre-Safe Sound: Playing ‘pink noise’ in the split ...

I'm tempted to qualify the second point as optimist.

US voting machines didn't have to deal with legacy technology and still turned pretty bad from an infosec POV.

mannykannot on Oct 28, 2016 [–]

Exactly, and it is not just this one case: serious, avoidable security cock-ups have happened every time a new class of device has been put on the internet, with the IoT DDOS debacle being perhaps the latest example.

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