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EXCLUSIVE: Smart devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo may be creating a “vector” for cyber crims and foreign govts to spy on Australians. Glaring security holes have been picked up by Australian Information Security Association chair Damien Manuel.

Smart devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo may be creating a “vector” for cyber criminals and foreign governments to spy on Australian citizens.

“IOT devices will become common and cheap – there’s a danger manufacturers won’t build cyber security features to keep the devices patched accordingly. He said the government could instead create a mandatory scheme which could be mirrored on the star rating systems used to rank food on health and appliances on energy efficiency.

 

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Is this the next fear mongering BS. Oh well better censor the internet then and all the other Nazi laws and Oligarchy from governments capitulation to corporations,again like Hitler.

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