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by task_queue 3739 days ago
You know all those things that make it really easy for Grandma to have her identity stolen when checking her email?

They're coming to car/refrigerator/toaster near you.

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Didn't we know that?

Not that this is "old news", but I thought Rule #1 was that when something is more complicated (or here, "smarter") there's more opportunity for things to go wrong, or for things to get abused.

I feel like we knew this was going to happen, but kind of shrugged it off as irrational.

Right after cell phones with blue tooth were made public, we added "blue snarfing" into our vocabulary.

I mean, I don't put a sticky-note over my webcam; I'm just not surprised at all that hackers are keeping up with tech.