Warning. This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence against children.

If you're squeamish, I'd recommend you listen to another episode. As a concept, the idea of connecting every appliance in your home to the internet seems like a pretty good one. Smart technology, aka the so-called Internet of Things, allows

us to do all sorts of stuff that would have seemed like science fiction just a couple decades

ago. Now you can control your third... fiction just by

now you can control your thermostat just by talking to it

have your refrigerator order more milk for you when it gets low

and monitor your home security system from a tablet anywhere around the world.

But technology can also be a double-edged sword.

Even the most innocent of things can be exploited by people with nefarious purposes.

Recently a Russian website was discovered that showed live footage that had been hacked from 70,000 cameras inside people's homes.

A Minnesota mother was awoken in the middle of the night when she heard strange music coming

from inside her child's nursery.

She got up to check and realized the music was coming from the baby monitor.

And as soon as she stepped into the room, the music ceased.

Police were able to trace the IP address of the hacked signal and were shocked to

discover a website containing tens of thousands of feeds from similar cameras all over the

world.

Then there's the case of a couple from New York City who didn't understand why their three-year-old son kept telling them he was afraid of the man inside his baby monitor.

That is until one night when they walked into the room and heard a strange man's voice coming over the monitor saying,

Wake up little boy, daddy's looking for you.

Then the voice announced, look, someone's coming.

These are the kind of nightmare scenarios

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