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Comment by something765478

20 hours ago

Because your clothes and paint do not need security updates, since they do not talk to the internet. Your mattress cannot be made part of a botnet.

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63stack  5 hours ago

A quite large chunk of botnet "members" are IoT crap (even mattresses).

xigoi  10 hours ago

Somehow my computer has not become part of a botnet despite having a free OS.

SauntSolaire  17 hours ago

Tell that to my eightSleep mattress

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