No surprises there. If all of your devices are networked together, it would seem to be common sense that you're opening up multiple points of vulnerability in your network. But hey, maybe people will be fine with it - after all, we hardly care about PRISM, the surveillance state, and mass data collection.

Internet of Things to be used as spy tool by governments: US intel chief

James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, told lawmakers Tuesday that governments across the globe are likely to employ the Internet of Things as a spy tool, which will add to global instability already being caused by infectious disease, hunger, climate change, and artificial intelligence.

Clapper addressed two different committees on Tuesday—the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee—and for the first time suggested that the Internet of Things could be weaponized by governments. He did not name any countries or agencies in regard to the IoT, but a recent Harvard study suggested US authorities could harvest the IoT for spying purposes.

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