Unsecured Internet of Things gadgets get hacked within 40 minutes of being connected to the net

[quote=“jhbadger, post:3, topic:88480, full:true”]
In reality, wouldn’t the hypothetical Internet toaster be online by means of somebody’s router providing wifi? Wouldn’t you first need to hack the router to get access?[/quote]

Only if it has an internal address on the LAN. If it’s exposed to the public Internet with its own IP address then you don’t need to hack the router first.

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