Comments on: What security risks are hidden in your Christmas presents this year? https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/20514/what-security-risks-are-hidden-in-your-christmas-presents-this-year/ Straight-talking security advice from the Malware Experts Fri, 18 Nov 2022 12:19:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mark Jacobs https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/20514/what-security-risks-are-hidden-in-your-christmas-presents-this-year/#comment-491027 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:51:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=20514#comment-491027 Some sensible advice here. BTW, somebody hacked my British Gas Hive system and set my house on fire! (Only joking!) ;-)

]]> By: Simone Jamilla https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/20514/what-security-risks-are-hidden-in-your-christmas-presents-this-year/#comment-491024 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:49:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=20514#comment-491024 I miss the days when we read BOOKS by candle light, and climbed trees in order to pinch an apple from the neighbours yard! Hahaha! :P

]]> By: Sokrates https://www.emsisoft.com/en/blog/20514/what-security-risks-are-hidden-in-your-christmas-presents-this-year/#comment-491020 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 10:27:00 +0000 http://blog.emsisoft.com/?p=20514#comment-491020 Why did you leave out navigators, coffee machines, coca-cola vending contraptions, supermarket cams, hair dryers and in general anything that contains a microchip?
And how about your own credit card? It also contains a microchip thus it might as well be hacked and induced to handing over your personal data to some identity thief…
Come on boys, I may even agree that being paranoid in a world that seems to have turned totally paranoid itself looks reasonable enough, but there’s still a life to be lived…

Besides, it looks like you’re willing to saw the branch you’re sitting on: the one who reads your articles carefully enough would inexorably conclude that there’s no software to be trusted but the self-written one and that the safest thing to do with the internet connections is to sever it where it enters his home.
Well, upon a second thought this could even be an excellent idea…

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