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One my favorite IoT botnet scenarios is an attacker taking control of thousands of ovens/air conditions/other high-wattage devices and using them to cause power outages. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

I wonder how the impulse to connect everything to the internet will be remembered.

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The flip side of that is you can use control of all those high wattage devices to prevent power outages by shifting load to times when more energy is available.

Hopefully, that's how the impulse will be remembered.

Or by the rise of salmonela infections...

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