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The question is what incentive a random person in the internet has into finding and targeting me. I’m a single dude who’s not rich, and I’m not gullible to scam
by ramraj07 6y ago
The question is what incentive a random person in the internet has into finding and targeting me. I’m a single dude who’s not rich, and I’m not gullible to scams (at least not easily). So unless they have a personal grudge against me, I would probably not be currently worried about installing a doorbell camera for example. The threat modeling will Change the moment I have a family of course.
I see it no different from driving a car. You can get carjacked, you can get in a crash, you don’t just not drive a car because of it, you just calculate your risk tolerance and do it.
- akkartik 6y agoImagine someone taking control of your door and telling you you need to pay them $50 at a random bitcoin address before you can open it. $50 isn't a reasonable payoff for most carjackings, but this isn't like a carjacking. They're doing the same thing at the same time to 1000 people using a script they wrote. That changes the payoff, and that means more people are likely to try to do something like this. This is an extremely mild scenario. It's possible I'm wrong about IoT, and there's a case for using it in its current state. But one thing I'm _sure_ of is that analogies with cars don't work.