If you try to purchase a new appliance these days, there is a good chance you will be guided toward the most up-to-date, state-of-the-art, smart appliances first. Whether you are in the market for a new dishwasher, fridge or even toaster, the chances are there is an internet-enabled device waiting to target you, but why the increase in IoT (internet of things)? Do we really crave every item in our houses to be smart, or do these companies have something a little more sinister up their sleeves where they actually just make things smart in order to learn more about us?
From the toothbrush that sends you a notification in the form of a graph of how well you brushed your teeth in the morning to the smart fork that senses if it thinks you’re eating too fast (I really am not making this up), we might just be walking into a future of IP-connected mayhem. IoT has boomed in the last decade and while I love a good gadget with a truly smart capability, where should we draw the line?
He goes on to describe how the door on his new dish-washer unexpectedly flies open.
The mind works in mysterious ways. Mine immediately went back to a security scare of an intimate nature from a few years back. InfoSecurity magazine takes up the story:
Security researcher and founder of Pen Test Partners Ken Munro, in a recent session at SteelCon appropriately called “Dicking Around,” showed just how easy it is to hack a sex toy’s camera, intercepting and viewing a feed from the device and, with a bit more effort, taking control of it directly through the firmware.
[Warning: the sexual puns get worse - or better, depending on your point of view - in the rest of the article.]
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