I think the general concern is both that the IoT devices provide incredibly poor security combined with the general availability of personal information getting

I think the general concern is both that the IoT devices provide incredibly poor security combined with the general availability of personal information getting tied across the IoT infrastructure. Federated Facebook/G+ logins for IoT devices are just around the corner, if they're not already here, and more and more IoT devices show up on Shodan every day. I will concur the article is a bit of IoT fear mongering combine with general paranoia over the current state of web services, but it's not really like this is much of a stretch for the near future.