Talk:Being Hunted/@comment-28259364-20150730181621/@comment-26838034-20150730183531

With the future setting, I was trying to imply the protagonist lived in a modern smarthouse, where the Internet of Things is commonplace (by the way, that's a term used for the real-life growing trend of making more and more devices dependant on the internet. I'm serious, there's refrigerators with internet connectivity nowadays.). In essence, the protagonist falls victim to a phishing attack, a tactic via which hackers attempt to steal a persons private information by convincing them to give these hackers access to said personal info (think those scamming website that ask you for your credit card number).

After the protagonist unknowingly gives the hacker access to his "home server" (a term I use to refer to the device that connects all the household appliances to each oher and to the internet), the hacker uses this to turn all the home appliances against the protagonist, hackig into the security system, opening the gas tank valves, controlling the doors and windows remotely, etc.

In the end, the hacker spares the protagonist's life because he has more sinister plans: to hack into the hospital' network, and make the protagonist's life support machines kill him by making the IV machine inject it's fluids much too fast into the protagonist's bloodstream.