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    1 year ago

    Nobody is doing that. A hacker doesn’t cause chaos just for the fun of it. They have nothing to gain by playing with your thermostat when they can spend less man-power exploiting corporations for money and data.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, but:

        The downside, though, is that installing the ransomware, currently, requires the hackers to either have physical access to the thermostat or trick the victim into loading malicious files on the device on his own.

        And if a hacker is in your home, they’re not a hacker. They’re just a burglar.