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Comment by chmod775 | Hacker News Reader

> In 2017, for example, hackers stole data from a US casino via an internet-connected fish tank.

What can I possibly say to make this funnier.

Remember Watch Dogs, where you tunnel from device to device to device in order to gain access to stuff normally out of reach? I remember I thought it being too unrealistic.

Now, it's just an IoT/outdated device software thing.

Isn't this a very standard method of exploitation that competent pentesters test for?

Yep. But in theory you shouldn't have your fish tanks and production systems with real world data and money on the same network.

It's standard, but what is new is there are so many more random devices which can be potentially used, instead of servers and PCs.

It always bothered me that in order to connect from camera to camera you had to have line of sight. As if that would matter when exploring a network

"I'm behind seven proxies, two fish tanks, a doorbell, and a Korean dishwasher."

> and a Korean dishwasher

LG, Samsung, or some other brand of dishwasher that happens to be inside Korea? /hj

In more serious discussion, I'm still unconvinced of the benefits of connecting your appliances to the internet considering that appliance makers are more likely to just abandon the "smart" part while the hardware is still in full working order.

An old firm I worked for had their router switch in the toilet. Not literally /in/ the toilet you understand, but above it, on a shelf. Was that really the only solution they could come up with, I wonder?

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