Modern baby monitors include live video feeds -- which are disappointingly often connected to the internet without any authentication required (e.g. http://www.

Modern baby monitors include live video feeds -- which are disappointingly often connected to the internet without any authentication required (e.g. http://www.kttc.com/story/28712087/2015/04/03/rochester-family-finds-their-nanny-cam-hacked-for-the-world-to-see http://www.kttc.com/story/28712087/2015/04/03/rochester-fami...). Others have two-way audio and similar nonexistent authentication (http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/29/baby-monitor-hacker-still-terrorizing-babies-and-their-parents/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/29/baby-moni...). Presumably the current news interest in baby monitors is whether they're safe (or which models are safe) from people using simple Google or Shodan searches to find these devices and use them to annoy or snoop on you, since that's exactly what's been happening. Anyway you're imploring the media to do something it doesn't do -- to be more technical and less alarmist -- which is admirable but probably also futile.