I REMAIN SKEPTICAL OF THE “INTERNET OF THINGS:” Hackers Wrecked the Internet Friday Using DVRs and Webcams. “Last month, security researcher Bruce Schneier started sounding the alarm that someone or something was carefully probing the internet for weakness. A scary prospect on its own, and one followed shortly thereafter by the full release of the Mirai code for any ne’er-do-well to use. Today’s attack, it would seem, is a confluence of these two events: An attacker who has been carefully surveying the internet for weak points is now openly wielding one of the most capable blunt weapons we’ve ever seen blast the web. The most terrifying part: This is probably only the beginning.”

The Internet Of Things is, at present levels of security, a bad idea. And nothing really important should be connected to the Internet at all.