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121: Ed

Darknet Diaries

CHAPTER

Toys and Replay Vulnerabilities

A replay attack is when an attacker captures a packet and then is able to send that pack again themselves, whenever they want it. ed found this toy was vulnerable to something like that. He captured the packet using his computer, and he could just replay it whenever he wanted to make the doll talk. The customer came back to us and said, we don't care. We're going to ship with It. Ed: If you play enough of these messages quickly enough, the doll starts to heat up. But remember our initial report said thereis not significant chance that someone could scald their child.

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