Ask HN: What's next after ransomware

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In the security space, it looks like these things come and go in batches. Rootkits were the rage a few years back, APT was on top not so long ago and these days, it's ransomware.

What's going to be it tomorrow? IoT threats?

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This would be an interesting AI exercise:

Train a model that gets personal IoT data (wearable sensors, lights activity, toaster, fridge, etc..) to automatically detect personalized "shameful" behavior (infidelity, etc) that can be extorted against bitcoin.

Pizzaware. Order a large Hawaiian pizza and a 2-liter diet coke delivered to the following address, and we'll unlock your computer.

I suspect that pizza would be delivered by a police car :)

Does that make the next evolution swat-ware, where you take it a level deeper and threaten them to become the recipient?

I bet there's a way to make it work though. Somebody amongst HN's readers has got to have an ingenious work-around.

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