You just have to figure out how to work with it, like Lucy Ricardo did.
Posted on 09/13/2017 11:32:12 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Is Your Refrigerator A National Security Risk?
September 12, 2017 6:10 PM
WASHINGTON (CBS4) – The federal government is worried some refrigerators and coffee pots could pose a national security risk, and it’s taking action.
Colorado’s U.S. Senator Cory Gardner among a bi-partisan group of senators who are sponsoring legislation to secure the so-called Internet of Things – everyday devices that are embedded with computer chips and sensors.
Gardner says those devices can be used as weapons of mass disruption.
“The federal government orders billions of dollars worth of Internet of Things devices each and every year,” says Gardner. “These are things that can be hacked into. You can try to control systems, instruments with them. You can certainly read what people are doing and maybe even eavesdrop on a conversation people are having.”
Just last year baby monitors and webcams were used in a cyberattack that took down major websites like Twitter, Spotify and PayPal.
The devices serve as portals to networks.
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
I’m reminded each morning that my alarm clock is evil.
If you have a new refrigerator it runs on software.
If it connects to the internet, it can be hacked.
And where exactly would "smart meters" enter into that equation?
This should not be the subject of ridicule. I have not bought into the IOT because I understand it is the easiest entry point to hack into computers in a household. If and when the industry tightens up security I might take the plunge.
Call me old fashioned...I’ve managed to get this far without a web connected fridge...hope to finish out that way.
I’ve yet to figure out the connection between refrigerators and porn.
Popsicles and cream
So now we’re gonna have to buy antivirus programs for our coffee pots?
weapons of mass disruption
I think it has to do with hot dogs and buns.
uhh.....HELLO.....SMART METERS.....IN 150 MILLION HOMES?????
I have a toaster oven that IS EVIL! I can’t work it, no instructions, nothing written on the buttons! WHERE IS THE on? WHERE IS THE off?
My wife says it is simple. Just push this, that, turn this over here!
Then I yell,
HOW DO I GET THIS THING OUT OF SECOND GEAR!
Is your refrigerator running? Well, you better get a net & catch it.<<Puppage, 1975
I'd wager a quick google search would come up with something.
You buy a refrigerator when you need something frigid in your house.
You buy porn when you already have something frigid in your house.
People who buy connected, smart devices are stupid.
The only good news is they are not smart enough to realize they have surrendered any and all privacy.
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