On March 16th, 2012, Rob Waugh wrote for The Daily Mail (Mail Online) on how web-enabled devices in the home are transforming surveillance. The article cited CIA director David Petraeus' comments on how web-enabled gadgets (like Netflix on our tvs, web radios, clock radios, really anything that can be controlled with an app) means that people are bugging their own homes. In this sense, the CIA would be able to access these devices via the internet and turn them into a surveillance device.
The article quoted Gen. Petraeus as saying that "web-connected gadgets will 'transform' the art of spying." Interestingly, intelligence agencies could go one step further and even take control of the web-enabled devices. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking of when the Chinese fooled with the thermostats and printers at the Chamber of Commerce.
You can find the Mail Online source article here.
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