"Charlie Gibbs"  wrote

| >   It's my impression that people are doing it. People
| > get calls from their surveillance cameras to say someone
| > has broken into their house, for instance.
|
| And hackers will break into the surveillance cameras
| to figure out when it's safe to break into the house.
|

Indeed. It's already happened:

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/ring-security-camera-hacks-see-homeowners-subjected-r
acial-135000462.html

| >   I've also seen stories about hacked e-front door locks.
| > People are eating up the IoT, no matter how dumb. I
| > suppose it is all cloud-linked, but isn't that really
| > a privacy issue rather than a functionality issue?
|
| Perhaps, but isn't privacy important too?

   To me it is. But seemingly not to most people. TVs
are spying. Cars are spying. People don't know, don't
see it happen, and are not aware of the ramifications.
To my mind this started with hotmail claiming co-ownership
of email and gmail claiming the right to read and hold
your email. ("Don't worry. It's just for targetting ads.")
People don't understand they're giving up their rights.

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