6th grader shows audience how easy it is to “weaponise” a smart toy teddy bear using your blue tooth…. Someone needs to hire this kid now – PB/TK
Cyber kid stuns experts showing toys can be ‘weapons’ – By Jo Biddle / May 17 2017
An 11-year-old “cyber ninja” stunned an audience of security experts Tuesday by hacking into their Bluetooth devices to manipulate a teddy bear and show how interconnected smart toys “can be weaponised”.
American wunderkind Reuben Paul, may be still only in 6th grade at his school in Austin, Texas, but he and his teddy bear Bob wowed hundreds at a timely cyber security conference in The Netherlands.
“From airplanes to automobiles, from smart phones to smart homes, anything or any toy can be part of the” Internet of Things (IOT),” he said, a small figure pacing the huge stage at the World Forum in The Hague.
“From terminators to teddy bears, anything or any toy can be weaponised.”
To demonstrate, he deployed his cuddly bear, which connects to the iCloud via WiFi and Bluetooth smart technology to receive and transmit messages.
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