Cause and effect: What could go Wrong? by Cody Huynh

Cause: Smart Fridge Weak Password

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Your smart fridge has a weak password that can easily be guessed, meaning that hackers can control your fridge controls/ temperature/ settings.

Effect: Easily Defeated and Shut down by Hackers

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The fridge get's shut down by the hackers, meaning that the humidity in the fridge is no longer available.

2nd Effect: Spoiled all the Meat

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The Meat gets spoiled after the fridge was shut down, due to lack of air/ ice.

Cause: Computer Does not have Virus Protection

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A computer won't be able to detect viruses or malware if it doesn't have a virus protection system/ anti-virus app.

Effect: Virus easily slips by protection service and invades the PC

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The Virus slips in due to lack of protection, invading and corrupting files/ content.

2nd Effect: Info get's leaked/ stolen.

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After the content is corrupted, this allows your information to be exposed, leaked, and stolen.

Cause: Smart Doorbell Company Ignored it's Security System

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No security protocols? No protection from outside threats.

Effect: Hackers found a backdoor/ another way to invade.

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No security meant that hackers could just sneak by and be on their merry ways.

2nd Effect: Hackers can also hack into other systems/ devices after one is exposed (possibility)

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Simple Explanation: If one device isn't backed up, it can heavily expose other devices, all like a puzzle.

Cause: Some Idiot decided to make a "Smart Toaster"

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Toasters DO NOT NEED to be electric, they can function properly without being "smart."

Effect: Hackers implanted a DDoS attack which got into the Toaster???

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DDOS means Distributed Denial of Service, a form of attacking to overwhelm a device, making it unavailable/ malfunction.

Cause: Lack of Cybersecurity across Systems.

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The Short film imagined systemic digital weakness where areas like transport, banking, healthcare, logistics, and personal tech operate without required protection.

1st Effect:

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Transports start to break down and computer bugs invade, causing an outbreak on the News.

2nd Effect:

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Banking irregularities appear, compromising financial system and causes fraudulent activity.

3rd Effect:

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Public Transit Issues which means delayed buses, traffic jammed, police system outage... electric cars malfunction, stoplights, etc.

4th Effect:

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Industrial Paralysis which means production rates go down and even stop, making factories/ Industries go down in stock as well as business.

5th Effect:

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Airports and Subways cancel and shut down.

6th Effect:

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Healthcare breakdown at hospitals or infirmaries, patient files being inaccessible due to technical failures.

7th Effect:

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Transaction failure and previous complications like hacked credit card, and unauthorized purchases.

8th Effect:

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Network Failure between Cars and the Rest of transportation.