BrickerBot takes down IoT devices permenantly

I found this article over on hackaday.com. Thought you would find it interesting.

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/brickerbot-takes-down-your-iot-devices-permanently/

Michael

While this is interesting and destructive at the same time, we are lucky that the Particle devices are embedded devices and wiping the firmware remotely isn’t that trivial. :slight_smile:

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Another reason Linux is not quite ready to iot prime time.

I was thinking about that the other day.

If you are using a 3rd party SIM and the firmware corrupts or is maliciously damaged resulting in the APN settings being removed, how would one be able to re-flash the device remotely? :\