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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or they could just dime out the heat/AC and give you a huge energy bill. Or kill the furnace in the winter, while you're on vacation, and let your pipes burst.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nobody is doing that. A hacker doesn't cause chaos just for the fun of it. They have nothing to gain by playing with your thermostat when they can spend less man-power exploiting corporations for money and data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? Ok, that could be a one-off: here's a more concrete example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but:

The downside, though, is that installing the ransomware, currently, requires the hackers to either have physical access to the thermostat or trick the victim into loading malicious files on the device on his own.

And if a hacker is in your home, they're not a hacker. They're just a burglar.