stackyFACTSThe 'Internet of Things' has finally reached peak absurdity.
The 'Internet of Things' has finally reached peak absurdity. In 2017, an unnamed North American casino was violently hacked, and investigators traced the catastrophic network breach to a deeply unexpected source: the high-tech thermometer in the lobby's aquarium. The casino connected the fish tank to the internet to monitor water temperature, inadvertently providing hackers a backdoor. They compromised the thermometer, slipped into the main network, and stole 10 gigabytes of data.
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