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The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true. (cyberplace.social)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

They say the story isn't true, but the source they cite in the very next sentence says:

Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen. Es zeigt, wie vielseitig digitale Angriffe geworden sind.

(This example, which sounds like a Hollywood plot, really happened. It shows how ~~multidimensional (my mind blanks on a better translation right now)~~ EDIT: diverse cyber attacks have become)

Edit: I hate microblogging sites. Apparently the thread continues on and the company who made the statement in the cited article has backtracked and admitted that this was a hypothetical. It did not happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the translation.

Multivector? Multifaceted? Multimodal?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

More like 'diverse' or 'versatile'. Although multifaceted would be the literal translation so I guess it works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you a regular reader of the Luzerner Zeitung? What do you think of their other tech reporting?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

No.

The only one I'd trust without having to do more research on their reporting quality is netzpolitik.org. Not sure how much of a newspaper they are though. I'd consider them digital activists - with sound positions based on facts, but activists nonetheless.