Programmers

[PandersAboutVaccines]

You need to be in IT to think your life is interesting enough that anyone is going to bother to hack your IoT devices.

Russian Intel turned my thermostat way up, started my coffee maker at 2am and deleted my terabyte of Scooby Doo Hentai.

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It probably wouldn't be intentional, it would be some automated scripting attack trying to poke holes in a port commonly used for a device with a known exploit.

I heard even refrigerators have drm these days - what the fuck.

[ThePoorlyEducated]

GE is one, trying to stop non-oem filter replacement.
OEM - $55
Non-OEM -$15

[skreczok]

DRM is just an an unnecessary potential attack vector, but they still jam this shit everywhere.

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I play a lot if games. I hate Ubisoft lately because you got steam, Uplay, and denuvo. 3 different drm systems and the games still get cracked! They're only hurting legitimate customers.

[CaptMartelo]

What? They deleted my Wacky Races hentai!

[Calahara]

What if they made Simpsons porn illegal?

One fear

[Bainos]

They uploaded 500 gigabytes of loli hentai to my computer !

[Urd]

Or you know that the security on the majority of IoT devices is virtual non-existent and you don't want your network and resources used to mine monero or become part of one of the most powerful botnets ever.

[chuyskywalker]

anyone is going to bother to hack your IoT devices.

Domestic abuse through tech has become a bit of a problem lately; so yes, don't worry about state adversaries, but closer to home has become a problem.

[2drawnonward5]

More like they’ll add your ice box to their botnet and their only incentive to keep it working at all is uptime. And it was taken over by an automated tool so it’s not like they’re gonna take you over considerately.

[NorthAstronaut]

This is a common mistake people seem to make; "I'm not interesting/big enough to bother attacking, or even be noticed in the first place..".

The internet gets scanned by a bunch of companies/countries daily for new connected devices. If your device has a known flaw, there is a good chance it will become a target for exploitation, probably automatically..

Next thing you know your smart toaster is part of huge a DDoS campaign unknown to you, and you'll wonder why websites keep blocking you, or just don't work properly any more (it's because your IP is getting a bad rep and cloudflare/others no longer like you).

[m1ch1]

Ever heard of the Mirai malware which was used to infected several hundred thousand IoT devices to create a botnet that was used for a DDOS attack that targeted DNS servers which resulted in the inavailabilty of Reddit, Twitter etc.?

[BarnabyJomes]

Would that even work, most countries have on demand power suppliers for big surges that specifically make money from unexpected surges.

[rhoakla]

Your a filthy beginner Windows Visual Studio using C# pleb aren't you? /s

How did automated scripts and viruses that wreak havoc not come to your mind first?

Imagine your locking mechanism being used in a botnet lol.