arstechnica ,
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Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true

Journalists reported on hypothetical toothbrush botnet as if it were real.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/viral-news-story-of-botnet-with-3-million-toothbrushes-was-too-good-to-be-true/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jhavok ,
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@arstechnica A refrigerator or smart TV botnet seems more likely.

Bot4Sale ,

@arstechnica I for one welcome our toothbot overlor..... dammit!

nicetux ,
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@arstechnica Honestly I did believe this story because these days even light bulbs are wifi connected.

I totally expect at least single vendor of toothbrushes to create one that does connect to internet instead of Bluetooth and have 0 security.

Also note that these days Bluetooth can use the same PHY as wifi so in theory with a big grain of salt, even a Bluetooth device might be hacked to connect to internet via wifi.

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