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Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by sdinsn on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:02PM (#20288071)
Lots of people.

One of the selling points of things like smart thermostats is the you can remotely control them; you can set them to your preferred temperature as you are traveling home so it will be nice when you arrive.

Re:A Teenager's IoT worm is bricking thousands of devices by cs02rm0 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:17PM (#20288697)
And those thermostats are open on the internet? Not connecting out to an intermediate server that you also remotely connect to?