In a situation like a server, I know I can go back and make changes but if you build a device and sell it to 100,000 people, there is no going back and you can’t count on customers/clients doing the right thing from a security update standpoint. Frankly, I don’t understand every nook and cranny of the OS, so securing it is non-trivial - I will not, even remotely, account for everything.

Linux is fantastic but you can’t say it’s simple. The reason? No one ever wants to update an IoT device and, sometimes, it’s not even possible.īack to my consideration of software and the physical world - the idea of building devices based on Linux started to give me heartburn. This was an attack by a thousand cuts, while the amount of processing power in a DVR or camera is tiny compared to a laptop or web server, a coordinated DDOS attack made from thousands of IoT devices was fairly trivial because the security was so lax. On Octoit caused a major outage at Dyn and people started to take notice. Mirai was (still is?) a botnet that infected internet connected devices - things like IP-connected security cameras and DVRs. October 2016 was important in the Internet of Things world - loads of attention was drawn to the subject for a very bad reason: Mirai. I had heard quite a bit about the Arduino ecosystem but lots of people were talking up Raspberry Pi and clones too. I started to get interested in the interface of software and the physical world in October of 2016. The previous part was Grab your hardhat !

This is part 29 of my Node / Redis series.

Running a Redis client on an ESP8266 Microcontroller

Eclipse how to install xchart