Man uses networked crazy toaster to hack PC | The Register
Remember the annoying Talkie Toaster from Red Dwarf? Well, this is not it but interesting all the same.
They key concept here is not the toaster exercise itself, but more the idea that we tend to trust electronics that we buy as being safe from an electrical point of view but have we considered them from a "spyware" point of view.
Just like you should be careful what software you install and where you get it from (especially if you are crazy enough to still be running a windows machine), you may have to worry at some point about hardware too.
The Sony rootkit debacle showed us that we cannot even trust major consumer companies, and something as innocuos as a music CD. There is a nice anew article on this at arstechnica.
Will make that Good Housekeeping seal of approval even more important ;-)
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