Security researcher and gentleman Mikko Hyppönen tweeted this in 2016:
Hypponen’s law: Whenever an appliance is described as being “smart”, it’s vulnerable.
My favourite response was from @naranek:
It’s probably time to start calling “dumb” appliances “safe” instead. Would you want a smart fridge or a safe fridge?
It also reminds me of Geroge Neville-Neil’s comment at AsiaBSDCon 2018:
The S in IoT stands for security
Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not BIOS… my brain should be EFI by now.
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