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by Barrin92 1747 days ago
>Have you seen the crap that people buy at Walmart? The furniture is not heirloom furniture,

the difference is that your sofa isn't programmable and networked into every other appliance in your house underpinned by a general purpose computer rife for abuse.

Virtually every piece of software you install is an access point to your machine or your sensitive data. One isolated thing in the analog world breaks down, not a problem. One misconfigured password in a VPN client, and whoops part of your national oil infrastructure goes offline

https://www.reuters.com/business/colonial-pipeline-ceo-tells...