<div dir="ltr">This has just got to be a milestone for Internet historians:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/hackers-use-connected-home-appliances-to-launch-global-cyberattack_905067.html">http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/hackers-use-connected-home-appliances-to-launch-global-cyberattack_905067.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>When I saw this report, the final scene of the recent Hobbit movie flashed into my brain -- where the hero (Bilbo) laments "What have we done!!!?"</div><div><br></div><div>Excuse me, I have to go configure my router so that my refrigerator can't talk to the outside world. I'm assuming of course that my router is still actually doing what I tell it to do.</div>
<div><br></div><div>/Jack Haverty</div><div><br></div></div>