Is This Good Or Bad What This Fella Is Doing ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39221421

[Bazile]

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[Bazile]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39221421

[Gromit]

Good.

If you are being constantly burgled, you should be able to see how the culprets are doing it, and lock the relevent doors.

[Old_Geezer]

It depends on the actual information passed on. There is a balance to be made between catching the bad guys and controlling the citizen. Privacy is a moral issue.

Can't say I'm thrilled by the knowledge that authorities can spy on me via normal domestic appliances. It is the way to ensure dissidents get rounded up when the government takes even less notice of the people. All there ready and in place for the moment your government swings more authoritarian then they presently are.

Shows it doesn't pay to have any 'internet of things' and "smart" this & that.

[woofgang]

“the authorities can spy on me via normal domestic appliances” That does it! I am not opening the fridge naked again!

[Old_Geezer]

Many a true word said in jest.
Why do you think they have a light in them ?

[Buenchico]

The US government is signed up to the 'Vulnerabilities Equities Process', whereby it is pledged to alert technology companies to any security flaws identified in their software or systems, rather than just keeping the knowledge to themselves so that they can exploit any security loopholes.

The 'Vault7' data from Wikileaks shows that the CIA has broken that governmental pledge by 'hoarding' vulnerabilities, leaving major companies and organisations at risk of their systems being attacked by hackers who've discovered those same vulnerabilities.

So, by alerting technology companies to flaws in their systems, Wikileaks is only doing what the US government itself agreed to do in the first place.

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/#PRESS