Ryan Montgomery
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I mean, this light bulb could be, you know, how a router is connected to the Internet.
Yes.
I could trick your computer into believing that this light bulb is the router.
So I have the way I'm routing the Internet through the bulb.
It can do a lot more than that.
I'm just trying to simplify it a little bit.
And this bulb, no, you have to be within Wi-Fi range.
There are other devices that are implants that you could at a distance with SIM cards or other means.
Or if they're plugged directly into the back of a computer, like I do have one of those in my bag that you would never know.
You would never unplug it because it looks like it's supposed to be there.
That one connects, I could be in Guatemala and I could have complete control over that device
from Guatemala.
Wow.
Yeah, so that's the hacker's nightlight.
I thought that was kind of a cool... That is cool.
And think of it like this.
This is a real brand.
This is not something that he paid to prototype.
He hacked the bulb itself.
And imagine a company like this either getting hacked, compromised, or a lot of these come from China.