Santa probably isn’t spying on you through your smart TV, but how would you know?
This Christmas, watch out for the “cyber-ghost of Christmas future,” as concern mounts that the smart coffee machine under the tree might soon be infected with malware that’s undermining the nascent Internet of Things.
Oh, cheery: here’s James Clapper talking about how excited the NSA is to use the Internet of Things to separate the naughty from the nice.
One interesting recommendation popping up for making our web interactions more fair and secure: voluntary levels of permissions for data, as discussed by a computer scientist inculcating ethics into her industry and recommended as a key step to fixing the Internet by Vince Cerf.
See also: The internet of actual things, where your phone experiences despair.
