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A Boring Dystopia

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Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages (www.tomshardware.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11673232

Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages

I meet my 10-year-old self in 1987. I tell him I live in the future of 2024.

"2024! Wow! Do you have flying cars?"

"No."

"Oh. Well do you have Mars colonies?"

"No."

"Huh. Well you've gotta have a cure for every disease!"

"No."

"What do you have?!"

"We have a toothbrush that bad people can control remotely."

"...do I have to grow up?"

"Yes."

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t this fake? Like a “what if” scenario that someone took seriously and then went viral?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fake or not, it’s really damn plausible. I used to be all-in on IoT but these days I’m really trying to keep my house as dumb as possible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

This is fake.

Here’s Malwarebytes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Relevant 2016 blog piece

Relevant XKCD