[TriLUG] copying files

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Alan Porter wrote:

> You're getting dangerously close to building a networked 
> oven!

Are you implying that for any sufficiently complicated 
device, there's a badly implemented version of a networked 
oven in there?

> (This is exactly what the TMIO oven did -- it connected 
> back to HQ, but then allowed the server to send commands 
> to it through the client-opened pipe).

If the client is behind a nat-box and has opened a vpn to 
the server, then can't the server initiate connections 
whenever it wants?

So someone writes a stuxnet for TMIO's and one day everyone 
in Japan comes home to find their dinner charred.

Joe

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