I, uh, "love" living in the future.

[theweaselking]

"Reports coming out of Russia suggest that some Chinese domestic appliances, notably kettles, come kitted out with malware—in the shape of small embedded computers that leech off the mains power to the device. The covert computational passenger hunts for unsecured wifi networks, connects to them, and joins a spam and malware pushing botnet. "

I mean, there's no confirmation that this is ACTUALLY happening, but it's possible, and, more importantly, *now we've thought of it* and it's hilariously frightening what omnipresent nanocomputing could actually do.