A huge new hacking threat was just discovered

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"You have the watches," goes a famous quote with different variations throughout history but most recently attributed to a captured Taliban commander, "but we have the time."

That quote is a perfect summation of the asynchronous nature of guerilla warfare, but lately, it's also seemed to me to be just as relevant to the modern digital threat landscape and the barrage of attacks on pretty much anything and everything connected to the internet, from hardware to software to smartphones and so much more. The good guys on the other side of the table from what are often state-sponsored, well-resourced hackers are playing an incomprehensibly lopsided game of whack-a-mole, which is both an apt metaphor for the nature of the threat and still somehow manages to come nowhere close to encapsulating the stakes involved. Reminders, meanwhile, come in the form of things like new research (from the security firm Forescout) showing that tens of millions of Internet of Things and smart devices and machines have critical security flaws making them vulnerable to mischief from hackers.

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