You Need WiFi Connected Appliances in Your Life!
September 4th, 2019 at 12:03:04 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | In the youtube thread the topic of connecting a TV to the internet came up, http://diversitytomorrow.com/thread/2646/42/#post124805 It prompted me to search for reasons to connect common appliances to the internet, and I came across the below link I'll add: And don't worry, you will be constantly hacked because of this last bit, in fact your house may get burned to the ground by your smart stove while you are gone. You'll get an alert though! https://renosappliance.com/blog/post/5-reasons-you-need-ge-wifi-connect-appliances-in-your-life/ I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
September 4th, 2019 at 1:15:27 AM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18631 | Computers sometimes do weird things that may make you suspect they're hacked or infected. Sometimes they just need updating, or just one program is malfunctioning. But if you do like to open mystery files from the internet, you probably will get hacked. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
September 4th, 2019 at 2:42:34 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | I don't know for sure if my tv box got hacked but hacking is going on, pretty rampant google "hacking appliances" and a bunch of stuff comes right up I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
September 4th, 2019 at 5:29:57 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | most software and hardware has little or no security built into it. Consider all those telephone answering machines that The News Of The Week hacked simply because consumers left their default passwords alone. No one ever programmed a medical pump against a hacker, much less a corrupted address link or a malicious one. Even "air gapped" networks are often connected. And aquarium monitoring programs can be gateways to a casino's Whale's Index. Older nanny cams with microphone links often broadcast signals for up to half mile. Key fobs can be hacked if keyrings are hung too close to front door. Police bumper beepers are even capable of being hacked. Hotel door keys can be hacked, so why not the toaster or the refrigerator. Even the safety devices of ship navigation systems are routinely hacked. one phone ordered an Uber ride for a hundred mile detour because different programs used different definitions of home. |
September 4th, 2019 at 6:43:48 AM permalink | |
OnceDear Member since: Nov 21, 2017 Threads: 11 Posts: 1504 | I quite liked this anecdote about internet connected hot tubs. You could sit in them happily sipping your champagne and some hacker could spontaneously change the temperature and turn the Jacuzzi bubbles and mood lights on and off remotely. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46674706 When I first got a wireless laptop I didn't have a WiFi router. However, I was able to connect to a neighbours WiFi and browse his network connected pc's for documents and images. I know which neighbour it was because I could browse his photos of the family in his garden and recognised my own house in the background. Oh Hum! I've done similar at public WiFi points where I've stumbled into shared docs that should not have been. Sharing all of C:\ is quite common !!! Do you? Many users set their default doc sharing to be far FAR too loose. Security cameras are funny. Used for security with insecure passwords so they actually become a vulnerability. |
September 4th, 2019 at 4:53:54 PM permalink | |
gamerfreak Member since: Feb 19, 2018 Threads: 4 Posts: 527 | I love my internet connected thermostat and lights. The issue isn’t the concept of IOT devices, they can absolutely be well designed to all but eliminate the risk of hacking. The issue is big wig executives who think of code as a commodity and outsource development to Indian developers who working for peanuts. Hell, Boeing killed nearly 300 people with this strategy. |