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Questions about cyber influence continue to cloud last year's US presidential elections and recently similar allegations have been levelled against the Brexit vote. Mexican armed forces are apprehensive about upcoming elections in that country but it's not the US or the Russians they are worried about – it's the cartels. Mikko …

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  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    "IoT is not about users wanting internet access on appliances," Hypponen said, "it's about vendors wanting to connect them to the internet so that they can collect data."

    Now tell us something we didn't know.

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  2. Gotno iShit Wantno iShit

    Brain fart? I don't think so.

    Why did I read that headline, twice, as F-Society man...?

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  3. Tanglewood73
    Joke

    Misspelt?

    Is Mikko Hypponen the misspelt brother of F1 driver Mika Häkkinen?

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Misspelt?

      The kind of F1 driver you'd find at a 'fakes' market stall in a, perhaps turkish holiday town, along with Len Shorman shirts or Coe Coe Channet perfume

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  4. Warm Braw

    Vendors have not quite worked out how to monetise this data as yet

    You could say the same about the waste that currently goes to landfill - it's not an argument in favour of collecting as much as we can until we work out what to do with it.

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  5. B0rg

    Robo-bin

    Already got solar powered bins that email the council when they need emptying. Combine with driverless bin lorries? We'll have to invent some litter-bots to do some littering, otherwise humans will have very little purpose anymore :)

    http://www.recyclingwasteworld.co.uk/products/councils-across-uk-pilot-bigbelly-bins/86712/

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  6. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge

    Data is oil

    It's leaking all over the place.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
    Big Brother

    Disinformation and Cable News ..

    "Disinformation exists on Twitter, it's how it is packaged and exposed on cable news that's the bigger problem. Bait is put out there and cable news picks it up."

    And that 's our function said the man from Faux News. Given the relentless dose of propaganda emininating out of the conventional media, maybe the American voter just don't believe you anymore. Just how weak does it have to be that a couple of comedy shows can discredit the MSG.

    The Best of John Oliver

    Stephen Colbert on O'Reilly's show!

    We live in a kingdom of bullshit!

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