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1 My life
C = Charlie Siem ​I = Itzak Rashkovsky
C: It’s very personal to you. It’s like having a magic wand,
your violin, you know. It’s how you create something
special. My name’s Charlie Siem. I’m a violinist and, you
know, playing the violin is my life. I first heard the violin
when I was about three years old, on the radio, and
the sound of the violin, you know, captivated me and,
erm, I was just very eager to play the violin to make that
sound, from day one, pretty much.
I: He came to my home.
C: I went to your house, yeah.
I: With your father …
C: Yeah.
I: And I didn’t expect much.
C: Yeah.
I: And suddenly this young boy, started playing to me
Paganini Caprices and, er, Wieniawski Concerto No. 2, and,
er, I immediately saw potential.
C: Yeah.
I: And I saw, first of all, somebody who really like to go
across the violin and so have fun to play, er, most
difficult … difficult pieces, so I really like it. The violin is a
wonderful instrument. Every note you take out it’s just …
C: Yeah, every note makes your heart tingle.
I: But it’s true that violin is like human being – it’s every day
sound a little bit different. And it can be quite tem … tem …
temperamental, so when you’re opening in the morning
violin case, you’re not sure what voice you will get.
2 Home is where the wi-fi is
D = David ​E = Elaine ​V = Vicky Richardson
D: So let’s go this way. We’ve been married now 16, 17 years
and, um, we’ve been moving all around the world.
A little less than two years ago, we decided to settle
in New York. I wanted to see if it was possible to live
in a different neighbourhood every month without
a home, um, so that was the experiment. How many
neighbourhoods we lived in now? How’s this, kind of,
12, 13, 14? So this is all our stuff. There are three suitcases,
famous three suitcases. Actually that’s the bulk of our
clothes, actually. The kitchen is well stocked. We’ve
been very lucky – people have really opened up their
homes and say like, you know, ‘Use whatever is in the
kitchen, you want’, and all these things. You’re not only
experiencing neighbourhoods, but you’re also sort of
meeting people in a different way, you know.
E: Yeah like this, for instance, is it’s like a super organised
household and that’s a real change from how I would
set things up ’cause I’m so not organised. And so it’s …
it’s nice, you know, for a month to experience some kind
of structure.
D: There’s not really a system set up to, like, do this
smoothly, um, but a good thing, like, 20 years ago, it
would have been a lot harder.
V: Home in many ways is where the wi-fi is. So home
is where you can connect with your online profile,
it’s where you can download your messages, um, it’s
where you can connect to your, um, your music and, er,
rather than being a kind of physical place with … with
material objects.
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C: That’s good …
I: Always a pleasure …
C: Do you know there are times when you can just
communicate with the violin and go into yourself and
play completely alone and that can be very satisfying,
and that’s what’s so great about being a musician is that
you can find music that directly relates to what you’re
doing and you can, sort of, express something within
yourself, in the music. When you’re a solo artist, on the
one hand you’re going out and you’re communicating
this beautiful music, but on the other hand, the challenge
of doing that is just as great as a racing car driver going
into, you know, do a Formula One championship, or a
tennis player going to Wimbledon. Erm, so you have
to, sort of, overcome that athletic side of playing and,
you know, psychologically being able to get up there
under the pressure and deliver. And so there’s many
aspects to performing, erm, that, erm, you know, make
it a challenge worth … worth doing. When I went on
tour before Christmas playing, you know, Paganini
variations to 25,000 people. Just recording now, er, with
the London Symphony Orchestra, the, er, Wieniawski
F# Minor Violin Concerto, and I’ve had, you know, many
great experiences, um, with the violin. That’s what really
stimulates me at the moment. And to be able to carry on,
you know, playing the violin, and to, you know, play in as
many places as I can to as many people as possible. Erm,
and if it continues that way, I’ll be very grateful because
it’s, um, it’s been a terrific journey so far and I, you know,
I’d be very grateful if it continues that way.
D: New York is this really unique place with all these
independent, interesting neighbourhoods that have all
their own character. I mean you could do this in London,
Tokyo but not many other cities have this type of
character. It’s the best video store in New York. There’s all
these crazy movies. You just get a sense, so now actually
when we come back to Fort Greene after we’ve lived
there eight months ago, and you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, that
was our pizza place, right? And that was, like, our coffee
shop’, and so we have this sort of this … this relationship
with it – it’s almost like we dated this person a little bit,
right? And so you know these neighbourhoods in a
slightly different way than if you hadn’t lived there for a
month or two months or something.
E: Moving every month – and knowing that it’s …
it’s coming up, erm, sort of gives you this … this,
erm, greater sensitivity to the passage of time. With
everything else that I’m doing I’m kind of like, ‘Whoa,
I should probably get stuff done.’ I just have a greater,
I guess, erm, push to … push to be doing things
because I can feel the time is passing by.
D: Yeah.
E: Yeah.
V: Er, we’re living in a sort of digital bubble where our
worlds are actually getting smaller and closer, er, despite
the fact that we’re travelling longer distances and
spending more time away from our conventional homes.
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3 Rising to the challenge
R = Ryan D = Dina ​J = Jeremias
R: Hundreds of years down the line, who’s gonna
know who was the president of the United States or
something, but everyone will remember who was those
first four people who stepped on Mars.
D: It might put me in danger, but that’s the whole point.
R: If we hit the atmosphere too fast, the heat shielding fails,
and we would be incinerated. Not a nice way to die, but
it would be almost instantaneous.
J: If I die on Mars, that will be great.
R: I think the most important thing to do in life is to
leave a legacy. A lot of people do that by say, having
a child and having a family. For me, this would be my
legacy – to try and find if there’s life on Mars, to inspire
a new generation, to lead to the beginnings of the first
civilisation on another planet. That is my legacy.
D: I’m 29 years old. I was born and raised in Iraq. If I ever
made it to Mars, it’s gonna be the same experience as
me coming to the United States. Going back is not an
option, never. I don’t feel like I need a family to … to be
able to survive and exist.
J: I think this world is not a good place to live anymore.
We have so many disease, we have so many army
complaints, we have natural disasters, we have
inequities. We have so many problems that I believe it’s
not possible to solve. I would like to see a better world
4 The future of work
P = Presenter
P: Is your job boring and repetitive? Bad news … There’s
a good chance you could be replaced by a robot.
Amazon already uses robots to move stock around
its warehouses. Carmaking robots are more precise,
less grumpy and take fewer sick days than humans.
Burger chains are developing robots to replace
minimum-wage workers. Robots can inspect apples
in vast orchards without getting tired. They can pick
and sort strawberries. In Japan, an ageing population is
looking to robots to carry out nursing care. And 10,000
orders have been placed for the Pepper humanoid
customer service robot. Construction robots can now
lay bricks and taxis can drive themselves. Now robots
are coming for traditional middle-class jobs too.
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comparing to this one and the … I think it a good
way to … to … to solve those problem is to start from
the beginning.
D: I think, er, love is a … is a word that refers to an
emotional need I have never felt and I don’t think that
I believe in it. I believe that there is nobody has this kind
of emotional effect on me. Love is not something that
I need.
J: If I fall in love in the next … before I go to Mars, er, I’ll
have a terrible problem to deal with that. It’s something
that you can’t control. You … you … you can’t avoid
completely, but you can control when you feel that
your … your feelings are changing. You can try to stop
in that … at that point, so that’s what I’m trying to do.
I’m not afraid of death. I’m afraid of some things in
this life … life, but no, I’m not afraid of death. All of us
will … we’re gonna die.
R: If you’re just one of seven billion people on Earth it’s so
difficult to make yourself stand out to do something big.
I don’t know, 50 years down the line, if I’m on Mars and
there’s a dust storm raging or something like that and
it’s … and I’m cold, being able to think and look back
and knowing that it mattered, what I did, in the end
that … that does make it worthwhile to me.
D: You gonna die here or there, it doesn’t really matter. Why
you’re going to die what matters for me. If I die on Mars,
that would be an accomplishment.
A 2015 report suggested that 47% of US jobs are at
risk of automation. Consultant radiologists are paid
more than £100,000 per year in the UK. But automated
systems are getting better every day at reading scans
and spotting tumours. Automated systems can now
write simple news reports and are replacing journalists.
Evolving search algorithms are better, cheaper and faster
than newly qualified lawyers. A large portion of stock
market trading is now done at super-human speed
by algorithms. Some (human) analysts fear this added
speed and complexity is making markets more unstable.
Robots have moved on from chess … IBM’s Watson
beat human champions at the US quiz show Jeopardy.
Robots still find complex spacial-awareness, dexterity
and co-ordination tasks very difficult. But they are
improving all the time. If your job is repetitive, it could
be on the way out.
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5 Power to the people
D = David Osmondlin ​L = Lawrence McIntosh ​
S = Shane Rattenbury
D: OK, are we good to go? Hi! I’m David. I’m a big fan
of renewables and I’m keen to invest in community
renewable projects in the Canberra region.
L: We’re here at the Mount Majura Vineyard, where the
northern block just behind us is the site we have
selected for a 1.26 megawatt community solar farm.
Now that’ll involve banks of north-facing solar panels,
about 5000 solar panels in total. And that’ll be owned by
about five to six hundred people here in the local ACT
community. SolarShare Canberra’s a way for people in
our local community to have co-ownership in medium
to large scale solar power plants.
D: Community projects like this are one way communities
have got round recalcitrant, er, governments, I guess,
that have been too slow to, er, to act.
S: Some are frustrated. They live in a unit and there’s no
space on their roof or they have the wrong-facing roof
direction at their own home.
D: Having community-ownership really builds social licence
in a community.
6 Speech and Debate
S1 = Student 1 ​L = Lou Cardenas ​S2 = Student 2 ​
S3 = Student 3 ​S4 = Student 4 ​D= Dieynaba ​
E = Emmanuel ​R = Rosie ​S5 = Student 5 ​S6 = Student 6
S1: I know you’re a man, your students know you’re a man,
your godmother knows you’re a man …
L: Speech and Debate is like any sport, but it’s public
speaking and that’s the sport. It’s like football but
for speakers.
S2: It’s just this vast competition of people, mostly talking
to walls or performing with their partner if it’s duo
interpretation. It’s just acting out monologues and
dialogues in the most craziest of ways with a
ten-minute time limit.
L: They go to a tournament, they compete against other
schools, then the judges decide who wins. In the end,
it’s about who can communicate their story the most
effective and who can really take you to this place with
their voice, with their body, with no props. There are no
sets. It’s just standing in front of a room and grabbing
the attention of the room.
S3: J … J … J … Jackie? J … J … J … Jackie Robinson?
Mr Jackie Robinson?
S4: Jackie Robinson, ha ha!
L: Hundreds of thousands of students compete in Speech
right across the United States. Er, if you win enough
heats you can go to the national championships and
you perform on national TV. And after Nationals, many
of the best performers are offered college scholarships.
For the students of Democracy Prep here in the South
Bronx, Speech and Debate’s not just a hobby, it’s a
chance of a better future. We’ve been able to get, you
know, over a million dollars in college scholarships.
They don’t seem to give acting scholarships but they
do give speech scholarships.
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L: And I think examples overseas really paint that picture
for us. We’ve seen, er, places like Denmark, for example,
having huge amounts of renewable energy and all of
it is owned, er, within a four kilometre radius of, erm,
of those different plants. And it’s been really important
for us to have all the stakeholders in the community,
erm, effectively being involved in the process for the
community and solar farm, SolarShare.
D: Most of these community, er, renewable projects are
offering a better return than putting in the money in the
bank. Er, and most of these are pretty low risk so we’re …
we can be pretty confident how much energy a solar
farm’s going to generate. And plus we’re supporting an
industry that I’m very keen to support.
S: Er, there’s a certain pride in Canberra being a jurisdiction
that is doing what the science tells us we need to
do – embracing renewable energy. Er, doing it in a
way that it’s affordable, er, that we can actually, er, be
economically responsible about, but also deliver a large
level of local investment and get a great outcome for the
environment at the same time.
D: I’m like, ‘I have Speech.’ And they’re just like, ‘Why do
you still do that?’ And I’m just like, ‘Dude, like, I don’t
want to pay for college … like … I like to do it. Leave
me alone.’ John! John!
E: The best thing about Speech is not being yourself,
playing someone else, but also knowing who you are.
And also you get to travel, which I love because it’s
really hard to be in a house with two bedrooms with
eight people.
R: Sit, please. What was that yell for?
S5: I yelled?
R: Yeah, that was, like, so mean.
S5: I thought it was soft because … Honestly. I honestly
thought it was soft.
L: Rosie is the main Speech and Debate coach at
Democracy Prep in the South Bronx and she is the
best in the business. Rosie has been given every
opportunity to work at the most elite institutions
around the world and she still chooses to come to the
South Bronx and help young adults from the projects.
R: I don’t want it to seem like I’m doing something noble
by being in the South Bronx. The kids here are amazing,
the families wonderful. To me I have everything I need.
L: The students are rehearsing every evening this week
and then on Friday, we travel to Yale for what is going
to be a gruelling three days of competition. It’s the first
tournament of the year, so the expectation for you this
weekend is to do your best, but whatever is going to
come from this weekend is gonna come.
R: So, be good citizens, care about others, share your
kindness, share a smile. You are carrying the South
Bronx with you.
S6: We love you, Rosie.
R: Love you, man. Here we go! There were two breaks in
HI: Emmanuel De La Rosa. And Stephen Durosaiye.
D: I just broke to finals in duo.
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7 Homeless Heroes
T = Tyler Watts ​T1 = Tourist 1 ​CM = Child’s mother ​
C = Christopher Dennis ​T2 = Tourist 2
T: I had really no plan to be the Joker. I had no plan to
be one of the characters on Hollywood Boulevard. It
just kind of happened. I made a vow that I wouldn’t be
homeless anymore this year. One day I kind of found
that by doing this character, I could make enough
money to pay for a hotel room.
T1: Hey!
T: Fist bump.
CM: Fist bump.
T: My entire existence is based on what I make in tips
from tourists. You’re not Batman, right? As long as
you’re not Batman, we’re all good. We’re like service
guys in a restaurant except we don’t get paid by the
hour to be in the restaurant. Ah. All for one.
C: Going from Superman to going to homeless, I was
put in my own living hell. I’m the first character that
did this out there on Hollywood. Hi there, welcome
to Hollywood. I came up with an idea while I was
waiting tables. These people that I’m waiting on keep
saying how much I look like Christopher Reeve or
Superman so I jimmy-rigged an outfit. They loved
it. Welcome to my home. I’m addicted to collecting.
The collection has taken over my house. It’s worth
probably somewhere around $100,000. So this is my
8 True convictons
C = Christopher Scott ​S = Steven Phillips ​
J = Lonnie Lindsey ​DA = District Attorney
C: I lost 13 years of my life in this place. The place that
I never ever wanted to return. My name is Christopher
Scott; I was wrongly convicted of capital murder.
I don’t think I can live with myself knowing that I got
a second chance at life not to fight for the guys that’s
still behind prison bars. ‘You once sat in my same
shoes. You wrote these type of letters for anyone
to hear your plea, to acknowledge your plight and
give a bit of advice. I’m an innocent man serving a
life sentence. I hope to hear back from you one day.’
I started my own non-profit organisation, trying to
make a change for some of the guys in prison for
crime they didn’t commit. We have to kind of, like,
contemplate if these guys are telling the truth or not.
S: All right. Let … let … let me look at this. I get back
with you on this, see what he’s talking about a little bit.
C: I’m working with two guys who’s committed to justice
and who have been through what I’ve been through.
J: He’s not giving us enough information; he’s just telling
us, ‘I didn’t do it, there was no evidence’, you know.
C: We read their cases, we work their cases and we
try to get ’em out of prison. It was just too many
cases like this and it was time for somebody to do
something about it. Now, Dallas kind of leads the
nation in exonerations.
DA: All right. What’s happening?
C: You OK?
DA: I’m good. I’m good. All right.
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storage unit. But yeah, this one’s just promoting the
film. This is a mini-me, at least that’s what I like to call
him. This was a promo piece. Uh, I got this from one of
the supermarkets. So as you can see, I clearly measure
up. I became homeless about eight months ago. They
towed my motorhome; that rendered me homeless.
While I was homeless, one of the homeless guys, he
beat me down with golf clubs, stole my outfit and
left me for dead. I felt like I was dead because I was
now without a job. I lost my dignity and my pride. So
I found myself panhandling on the corner. When I put
on this suit, I am Superman. My stature changes. My
chin is up and I’m standing straight and tall. Can you
go like this?
T: I didn’t choose to be the Joker, but now I don’t know
how any other character could have picked me. Like,
I feel more of who I am behind this, than I do without
the mask on. Fist bump. It’s really cool to do a good
deed for somebody and then have it not be expected
because they would think the Joker would hurt them
or steal from them or whatever. I currently have a roof.
I don’t know how long it’s for, in a week I could be
back sleeping on the Boulevard, I don’t know.
T2: Superman!
C: I’ve got people that say, ‘Hello, Superman. How are
you today?’ After meeting me, they walk away with
that feeling ‘I’ve just met Superman, that’s the real one.
That’s the real one. He’s real.’
C: Back in that time when all of us was being convicted
of these crimes, all of us fit the same type of profile:
mid-aged black guy, medium height, medium
weight, with a low haircut. How many people is you
describing when you describe that? You’re describing,
you know, half the black men in … in, you know,
probably in America.
J: I advocate all the time if the prosecution doesn’t prove
its case, well then he don’t have a case, and most of
our cases, the cases was not proven. They robbed us
out of our life; 26 years of my life, I was robbed. All the
witness misidentified me, every last one of them and
that’s how I got the wrongful conviction.
C: What would it take to get you to, like, reopen
a case or …?
DA: Well, automatically, you guys have credibility with this
office because you’ve experienced it, and so we want
to work with you to get to the truth.
C: My case happened in 1997. After 13 years, the killer
came forward and confessed. His silence put me in
prison and his confession set me free. The day that
they convicted me, it was raining, cold. It was the
same day I went to prison, the same day – raining and
cold – for a crime I didn’t commit. You just don’t know
how it felt getting on the bus … shackled. As much
as I paid for his weakness, he didn’t do this to me. It
was men much more powerful than Alonso. Cops,
prosecutors, DAs, judges. The justice system wronged
me so much, you know, I had to come out and try to
make a change. My whole mission is to free as many
people as I can before I leave this world.
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9 The cutting edge
B = Ben Edmonds
B: We’ve been cutting things to survive forever. You know,
whether it’s bits of flint tied to a stick and then hacking
at things, you know, there’s just something really primal
and … and basic about making a knife. I … I’ve grown
up as a graphic designer for … I did it for about 12 years
or so, and was just really conscious that I wanted to,
you know, get away from the desk and get involved in
something a bit more hands-on. And … and it was just
for … it was purely for pleasure to start with. You know,
I really, er, there was just something about making a
knife that I found really satisfying. My wife’s a cook, so
we’re very, like, food-orientated. And that’s why I solely
focus on kitchen knives, I don’t do hunting knives,
I don’t do outdoor knives. It took a while to come up
with the … the shape, er, and the … and the balance
and the feel, and … and how the handle was gonna sit.
Design is a very big part of my life and I think just visual
aesthetics, so being pleased by what you see. I’m into
old things as well, so the reason for making these knives
is I wanted to make something that would last. I … I try
to use interesting woods, lots of burls and burrs and
spalted woods. Wood has obviously got a grain through
it and you’re not seeing that grain until you’re working
your way down. Not only can it hinder the process, but
you could be working on something that you think is
OK, and then you grind into it and just reveals the most
fantastic-looking piece of wood you’ve ever seen. You
know, I’d … I’d love for one of my knives to pop up in
a car boot in like 20 years’ time. It would just make me
really happy. I don’t know … I don’t know why, but
the … the … the point is that it, you know, it’s been
looked after and it’s … it’s survived really. When I walk
into here, every day, it just makes me smile. Because
I know that, today I’m gonna build a knife.

10 The power of privacy K: That’s the world for you.

A = Aleks Krotoski ​M = Max Miller ​K = Khalil Sehnaoui ​ A: It is, isn’t it? Except there’s a cool picture from NASA.
W = William Saito K: Now as you’re browsing through the Guardian, I just
stole your credentials, so I have your email address
A: In this film, I’m going to travel the world to undergo
[deliberate distortion] dot com, and the password is
challenges that explore our digital life in the 21st century.
[deliberate distortion], which is a very nice Guns ‘n’
I’m in Los Angeles to meet Max, a professional digital
Roses song.
detective, who works with businesses and celebrities to
A: Thank you very much!
protect their online reputations. I gave him just my name
K: And I’m actually compromising your whole machine.
and then challenged him to gather as much information
I could have downloaded files or I could just do what we
about me from what I’d willingly shared online.
like to call a ‘Rick roll’ which is redirecting your browser.
M: Are you ready to go through the box?
A: Never gonna give you up.
A: I’m a bit nervous, to be fair.
K: I just sent you to Rick Astley.
M: Let’s walk you through it. This is scratching the surface.
A: You did. How did you crack my computer?
This is essentially a couple of hours of work.
K: The website you’re on is not actually the Guardian.
A: That’s pretty deep.
A: It looks like the Guardian.
M: You have a pretty sizable digital footprint and most of
K: No, it is, but if you look at it carefully, which people
this represents media that you put out yourself. You
don’t really do, on the URL, it actually says ‘the
might say to me, ‘Well, my life is an open book. I’m not
Guardlian’, so I added an L in there. But …
worried about you revealing any of that information.’
A: Yes, you did.
But if I’m looking to go after you, and to get you to
K: Yes, I did but …
do something you might not want to do, I’m gonna
A: You did; it was added.
use anything at my disposal to create some sort of
K: No, I actually registered the website theguardlian.com.
psychological leverage.
A: That’s available?
A: In recent years, the new breed of geeks are being hired
K: It was, not anymore, and so I cloned a live version of
by governments, financial systems and corporations
the actual Guardian website so you wouldn’t know that
to both attack and defend. In order to get a better
you’re not there.
idea of this threat, I’m travelling to Las Vegas. Here,
A: No. It looks exactly … I mean … it looks like
annually, for the past 20 years, international hackers
the Guardian.
have been gathering to show off their skills and to
K: And then it’s enough to take control of your whole
exchange techniques. We already know what can be
computer because you actually gave me access, just by
learned about me through a legal search, but what
clicking on the link.
can be uncovered with these specialists’ skills? With my
A: I clicked through to the link from a person who sent me
Guardian computer, I’m visiting two hackers. Can they
an email whom I trust.
hack my laptop? What is a security situation like in the
K: Well, your Facebook is out there, your LinkedIn is out
Middle East say compared with Europe or the US?
there, and we can find out who you’re associated with,
K: I think the whole region is somewhere between five to
and then we can get their email out of their LinkedIn or
ten years behind as far as awareness of the importance
their Facebook, and it’s a very easy fake.
of information security. Mainly, because the media
A: Is it as easy to do this to … to company computers?
doesn’t really talk about it. In the States, you turn on
K: It’s … it’s probably easier because out of a hundred or
any TV channel and there’s a story about a big hack and
thousand people, you know, it’s more than probable
because these things happen and they’re publicised.
that at least some of them will click the link.
A: Yeah, I’ve just got an email from my director. He says
A: It’s estimated that presently 1% of everything that
there’s a good article on the front page of the Guardian.
could be connected to the internet is. Imagine
So, there’s nothing but bad news down here, is there?

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a world where the other 99% are also constantly
sensing, storing and communicating data about
every aspect of our lives. What kind of hardware
systems does the smart home use? How do you see
smart homes changing people’s lives in the future?
So, in Japan, a primary motivation for this technology
is to provide a safer and more efficient environment,
particularly for their ageing population. But are there
any drawbacks? I just had the experience of being
in a smart home. Are there any potential privacy
implications that I should be worried about?
W: I think that, er, there are already a number of privacy
implications, er, just because it’s possible to use various
sensors to track your activities, to track your habits.
Er, in some cases, I know of incidences where you have
a smart home where there’ll be a camera built into a
device to allow for, er, various metrics to be measured,
but unwittingly allowing hackers, to say, peer into
your living room and so everything is a two-sided coin
where there’s pros, but if the security isn’t addressed,
they can easily be used for a con and people fail to
realise that yet.

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