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If the cars are self-driving hackers could lock you in, take you hostage, drive you to a unknown location, and steal a kidney.

With fridges hackers could threaten to melt the freezer if you don't pay a ransom.

With home thermostats they could either freeze of cook you depending on the season unless you pay a ransom.

With washing machines not sure what they would do. Maybe use hot and shrink all your delicates?

The problem with Internet Of Things, IOT, is security.
What good is a doorbell security camera if it uses IOT, gets hacked, and records a loop showing nobody there while the house gets robbed.

There are a LOT of future problems with the current state of IOT.

Just heard this morning that our IT department wants to go to cloud based web browser managed network security. Yikes.
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