SMART home technology are connected by the Internet of Things, have inherent risks of security breaches. Hackers targeted unsecured devices that includes SMART home technology, and infected them with malicious code to form a botnet and carry out the attack. A study estimates that at least 15 percent of home routers are unsecured with weak or default passwords. There are over 13 billion interconnected digital and electronic devices across the world; the October 2016 DDoS attack showed that a small percentage of vulnerable devices can have a devastating impact. SMART home technology SMART home technology use devices connected to the Internet of things
The Internet of Garbage in 2014, the book deals with issues of online harassment, and especially gender- and race-related harassment, with an emphasis on the physical danger caused by doxing. The book describes how harassment makes the internet smaller, and less free for its targets, and seeks to broaden the frontier of free speech for all internet users. Other subjects covered include the effects of online visibility on social reputation, and spam. Writing from a legal and policy perspective, Jeong describes how the regulations applied to the internet, such as the DMCA and the Communications Decency Act, have been based in copyright law and