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As long as it's segregated that way. Someone was able to gain access to their Dr's office's network by accessing the wifi-enabled fish tank thermometer.

I forget if the details of how exactly they accessed it, but it was an example of an Internet of Things device making a security hole in a network.




It wasn't a doctor's office, it was a casino:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/07/2...


"Someone was able to gain access to their Dr's office's network by accessing the wifi-enabled fish tank thermometer"

I think you're mistaken/misremembering. It was a casino.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/a-casino-gets-hac...




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