Mirai malware simplifies internet attacks like last week's

One major question this article failed to ask is why are manufactures of these cheap IoT devices allowed to get away with creating cheap junk that allows such attacks in the first place?

All MAC address ranges have to be issued to manufacturers so it is possible to tell who made every single piece of junk that was compromised.

Any device identified should have its MAC blacklisted from all top level routers. That would force manufactures to up their security game as their junk would no longer work if blacklisted.

Any device identified should have its MAC blacklisted from all top level routers. That would force manufactures to up their security game as their junk would no longer work if blacklisted.

MAC addresses are not available in incoming connections over the internet, so I don't see how they could do this.

They would just spoof the MAC address anyway