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Old 03-20-2017, 01:44 PM   #81
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Neighbor had some kind of "smartkey" remote controllable electronic doorlock on their house. And today they couldn't get in because the battery had died! Fortunately I still had an old key that I unlocked their back door.

Yup.....
That's just bad implementation and planning.
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"Mirai, a piece of malware, works by scanning the internet for those devices that still have factory default or static username and password combinations."

First thing one should do with these devices is to change the default factory password - I know that lot of people don't bother to do that, well, they should not go near those devices.
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