Hacking the IoT: An Experiment

For me it's one of the reasons I never keep anything of substantial personal or general value on my computers.

If you don't do things that draw certain peoples attention they tend to never take so much as a second to look at you and have you even register in your mind as being potentially worthy of further review.

For example.

In a typical visit to your local grocery store how many hundred people pass in and out of your direct line of site yet how few ever register to you as anything but a blob or shadow in your conscious mind? And from there, of the handful you do make eye contact with and give courtesy nod or smile how many of those will be in your memory 5 minutes later?

Now what about that gal dressed up like a hooker bouncing her stuff all over visually screaming for attention? Yep, you already remember that person just from my discription days, months or even a year or more back.

Same with that guy dressed up like a rich douche with his nose up in the air doing his damndest to look like he's better than everyone else. Yep him too, days, months, a year later you can still picture that person as well even if you don't want to.

What about that guy who looks like a well worn old bum wearing ragged clothes? He's not advertizing himself deliberately but you couldn't help but notice he does not fit the standard range of forgettable blobs and shadows.

You may have never made so much as eye contact with any of them but still their own actions advertized them so loudly you couldn't help but notice and remember them.

So, now given that if you were wanting to rob someone. Out of the hundreds of blobs and shadows that day there are three who made themselves worthy of a second look and of those which one stands out as being the one most worth of your time and effort to rob?

Rich looking nose in the air douche advertizing to the world how great he thinks he is looks like a worthy target who will have something worth your efforts to pursue and rob doesn't he? I mean heck, he makes you just wanna knock him on his ass for being that way in public, Right? The gal was amusing eye candy and the bum made you almost feel bad so they are out.

That's largely how I see being online. Don't draw attention to yourself in a way that give reasons for others to want to go after you and the majority of the world will never know you exist or at least look like something so worthless that makes others almost want to avoid you.

You and I go to quite different grocery stores.

That's largely how I see being online. Don't draw attention to yourself in a way that give reasons for others to want to go after you and the majority of the world will never know you exist or at least look like something so worthless that makes others almost want to avoid you.

It doesn't work that way as the article states. Software bots are not humans and hence can scan all the individual blobs looking for weaknesses. Being low key and quite online doesn't protect you.

A counterpoint.

1. I agree.

2. Who are the " certain people " ?

3. I remember everyone I see for more than 5 minutes.

4. From what I understand, women's clothing is mostly designed by men, with the intention of procreation or the practicing of procreation of the species.

The ugliest flower in the forest is better to look at than the prettiest thorn.

5. & 6.I generally don't pay attention to guy's ( enough said on that subject )

7. What I notice is the plus sized women who try to look skinny & the skinny women who try to look like plus size women.

8.I never think of trying to rob anyone, I already have too much junk at home and I don't need anyone's else's junk to add to my pile of junk.

9. I have never been a " rich hatter ", I can't be, I might not have much ( according to me ) but there will always be somebody who has more or less than I do.

10. If I didn't want attention, I wouldn't post messages to a forum like cr4, and if somebody, somewhere wanted to imitate me ( which I highly doubt ) then more power to them, maybe I could learn something from them that could help me to make an improvement on myself.

6.

If you can remember every single person who crosses your field of view for more than 5 minutes you're a statistical anomaly.

As for being rich and acting like a rich douche or worse the rich never see themselves as being and doing so. (Just look at the clintons for our nations present top example of that. In their minds they are best people to ever exist. In most everyone else's they are by far one of the best examples of rich greedy douches live)

So without actual reference to your own net worth and how the general public sees you as well your opinion of yourself not being a rich douche by common base standards is invalid.

This is were I say, "I told you so!"

Clouds, phones, coffee pots, refrigerators, industrial machinery, W 10 and the internet itself are all an invitation for invasion of our personal lives.

I getting to the point where I don't buy things that can't be fixed with duct-tape or WD40! :-)

Today, I repaired a cheap lawn sprinkler and took the door panel off my pickup and lubed a sticky electric door lock.

Saved a hundred bucks!

all at once?