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I've read this a while back.

The following Is quite astonishing.

we're headed for a world that will have 24 billion IoT devices by 2020.

Yeah, it's pretty scary if you ask me, because most of these devices will have features like accessing the microphone/camera, changing the temperature of the house/water, turning the lights on/off and so on. And all of this will most likely be implemented insecurely, so in the near future cybercriminals could mess up your entire house, until the point you wouldn't even be able to stay in it anymore.
What's more alarming is that there is no simple solution to this problem

Agree.

Simply stated, anything connected to the Internet, Is susceptible to exploitation.