the Trump administration may have been spied on with microwaves?
In fact, the topic of household and other internet-connected devices going rogue — or worse, being maliciously controlled by third parties — is a key concern for the. That’s the word I received from a presentation at this year’s AI Summit and IoT World, a California-based tech conference. Nicole Newmeyer, the NSA’s technical director for internet of things integration, said the agency is focused on IoT because “it’s already changing the way we exist as humans and how we interact with the world.”
Regardless, by year’s end, at least 46 billion devices around the world are expected to be connected to the internet, according to, a tech consultancy firm. For the growing number of Americans surrounding themselves with smart devices, the popularity of IoT represents a “growing attack surface for our nation’s adversaries,” Newmeyer said.