Sounds like science fiction, but it’s not. Your bluetooth smart speakers, along with the voice commanding mechanisms that drive them, can be hacked. And not in the way you might imagine. This time, shoot low boys, they’re riding lasers instead of shetland ponies. If only Lewis Grizzard were still around to see all this happen. He’s not, but find more information about this intimate form of laser tag here.

If you missed the Grizzard reference, fear not. He wrote a syndicated newspaper column on a typewriter, and probably one that didn’t require alternating current. He also went to his reward when a hack was still a bad writer, and nobody ever called him that. Not even his ex-wives. My, how times have changed.

This is the age of IoT, where thermostats talk to toasters, and alarm systems sync up with smartphones, and Siri sounds a lot like Bad Janet from The Good Place. If you’ve not seen the show, ask Alexa to pull it up. Or not.

How impersonal (or personal) do we want the Internet to be? The question seems relevant as methods keep emerging for others to control your digital life in analog ways, like toasting your California bagel from a basement in Eastern Europe. Now that laser beams can speak to Siri and Alexa on your behalf, can it be too futuristic to assume your own obsolescence?

There’s a lot of noise in the digital space. If you need help clarifying the barrage of threats to your organization, call ICS today. Clarity is our middle name. Actually, it’s Computer, but it sounded like such a compelling tagline. Hey Siri, what’s a tagline?