Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200 million cable modems (ars technica)
Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200 million cable modems (ars technica)
Posted Jan 15, 2020 11:53 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)In reply to: Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200 million cable modems (ars technica) by Lennie
Parent article: Exploit that gives remote access affects ~200 million cable modems (ars technica)
Websocket and WebAssembly are red flags security-wise.
What made the Web safe (sort of) is very constrained introspectable norms and protocols.
Those two things are anything except that. They just relay blindly all the one-of-a-kind dangerous unconstrained things Web tech replaced for security reasons. They were invented by people who didn’t want to make their stuff safe by adhering to constraining rules.