[liberationtech] Your refrigerator probably hasn't joined a botnet

[Paul Ferguson]

On 1/19/2014 11:47 AM, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> I'm not as worried about a malware-infested IoT - as most end-user
> computing devices are malware-infested already and even though these
> devices are important and information-rich, civilisation has not ended.
> 
> What worries me most is that Internet-connected media devices (like
> "smart" TVs) are ripe vehicles for taking wholesale surveillance from
> its current level (location & communications surveillance) to a whole
> new level (surveillance of your most intimate physical space - your
> home, but also of course everywhere where TVs would be installed).
> 

Yes, I have a healthy concern & trepidation over that, too. :-/

- ferg


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