Re: The Future of Security

[Damir Rajnovic <drajnovi () cisco com>]

At 19:36 30/11/1999 -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
> I think many things will become appliances, as computers move
> into an ever-increasing household penetration. This will bring
> up new sets of problems. What if someone hacks your toaster oven?
> OK, that's probably not realistic, but what about Dreamcast, and

I was unable to resist. There is, or rather, may be an implication of
'hacking a toaster'. Toaster may not be so good example but fridge
is much better. Let us assume that fridge maintain time and date
when door was opened last time. If one can hack into fridge and see
that door was not opened for a several days one may assume that
fridge owner is absent and one may attempt to break into a house.

Cheers,

Gaus
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