Beyond merely guarding the entrances to your house, he shows how the software can keep a detailed log or send text message alerts every time any door in the house is opened, to monitor practically every activity in the house.

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People no longer have to log-in to the Facebook app to get and send messages.

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The app also will send students messages asking about their progress if they don't log in for several days.

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Customers can make phone calls, send faxes, access the Internet, transfer images, transmit videos and log on remotely to a local area network.

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"I would never want a company to send me an instant message advertisement and as soon as that started I would instantly log off and never use the service again, " he says.

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But it also lets me make calls, log on to Twitter and Facebook, share photos, play games with friends and send messages through a variety of services.

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Redirecting the user might make sense if for example the attacker wanted to send the user to a phishing site to attempt to get the victim to supply their PayPal log-in credentials.

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