The “anti-patterns” that turned the IoT into the Internet of Shit
Cloudflare presents a primer on “anti-patterns” that have transformed IoT devices into ghastly security nightmares.
This JSON request instructs the alarm clock on every “alarmSound” event to send a HTTP request to the coffee machine. Whilst this may seem a simple and effective way of implementing the Pub/Sub pattern in HTTP, this poses a significant security risk. Read more…
