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A WORD TO THE NERD

THE TELLTALE TOILET: AN IoT HORROR STORY

“I'm your best friend,” said the man's voice in eight-year-old Alyssa LeMay's bedroom. “I'm Santa Claus.” Then the song “Tiptoe through the Tulips” began playing through the Ring security camera that her parents had installed above her dresser.

It had surely never occurred to Alyssa—before she ran screaming for her parents that night in December 2019—that a stranger might be spying on her through ...

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