[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Android smartphones. What, you thought that you were the only person who wanted to root your phone?

Phones are the obvious target. Android phones currently attract the most malware, but while Apple is currently doing a good job of protecting non-jailbroken iOS devices, there's no guarantee they'll continue to be able to do so, so iOS devices are also a potential target.

Smart TVs are pretty disinteresting as they don't hold any private data and aren't really used to do anything that involves it.

I think Smart TVs would only really be of any use if you wanted to spy on the owners (most seem to have webcams and microphones now), you wanted to send out a lot of spam, to sniff out (and infect) computers with ports open that may be blocked by the router's firewall or to act as very slow bitcoin miners.

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Originally Posted by Hugh

Unfortunately, security has to be easy/simple to use for the lay/less experienced user.

I use to work for a major Financial Services company, and we encrypted all laptops (this was in 2003) - the number of times the Chairman or the CFO would lock themselves out (once or twice a week).

I think security also has to be appropriate for purpose. What I mean by this is what is there any point in spending the time and money (if needed) to set up a decent security system if all you are going to do on the computer is go on facebook or twitter from time to time and not store any sensitive data beyond photos of the owner falling around drunk in some sunny party island.