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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Activist Post: "Smart" Houses Added to List of Hacker Threats

Activist Post: "Smart" Houses Added to List of Hacker Threats:
Sensitive information was revealed – not just what appliances and devices people had, but their time zone (along with the closest major city to their home), IP addresses and even the name of a child; apparently, the parents wanted the ability to pull the plug on his television from afar. In at least three cases, there was enough information to link the homes on the Internet to their locations in the real world. The names for most of the systems were generic, but in one of those cases, it included a street address that I was able to track down to a house in Connecticut.