So perhaps you read this article about the “crazy toaster”.

Basically, a man made a hacking appliance and disguised it inside a toaster. Only it’s a “smart” toaster, purporting to offer some benefit in return for being granted access to your network. In this way it tricks you into inviting it into your home and giving it digital free reign once there.

But what could a toaster possibly do online? Well, probably nothing, maybe something? Certainly there are appliances that might benefit. We’re forever hearing about the smart-fridge, for example, and to a lesser extent people have posited smart-microwaves.

The point here is that the possibility exists for people to lay down some initial outlay in terms of constructing and selling a malicious home appliance, recouping their money when it starts barfing up credit card details once you take it home – it’s a trojan Jim, but not as we know it.

I don’t know about you, but that’s pretty worrying.