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Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw (Hack with any Android phone).
BBC News ^
| August 5, 2013
| Zoe Kleinman
Posted on 08/05/2013 7:03:57 AM PDT by Pilsner
A luxury toilet controlled by a smartphone app is vulnerable to attack, according to security experts... the Pin code for every model is hardwired to be four zeros (0000), meaning that it cannot be reset... An attacker could ... cause the unit to unexpectedly open/close the lid, activate bidet or air-dry functions, causing discomfort or distress to [the] user."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hack; phone; toilet
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If this becomes a big problem I plan for Pilsner Consulting Ltd. to begin offering advice to those with more money than sense on how to make their toilets immune from both hacking, and remote monitoring by the NSA.
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:03:57 AM PDT
by
Pilsner
To: Pilsner
Thirty years ago,in East Africa,I came upon a toilet that looked very much like this.Degrading,difficult,embarrassing...but functional.No smartphone required.
To: Gay State Conservative
The toilet uses bluetooth to receive instructions via the app Either I'm now officially "old" and behind the times technologically because I don't see any remote need or use for this, or some people have absolutely no idea how to spend their money productively.
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:12:22 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Look at the bright side.
More of Baraq’s “high tech” jobs....
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:14:24 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Pilsner
*sigh* First world problems...
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:14:41 AM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(The average American voter is an idiot. Which is how the Dems want it.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Looks like a place where Bill Clinton might go to toss off...
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:15:55 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Carlos Danger for mayor....NYC deserves him)
To: nascarnation
(runs in .. hurredly drops trou ... REALLY gott'a GO ... )
unnggghhh ... ahhhh .... WHAT TH" ???? !!!
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:19:44 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Pilsner
To: Gay State Conservative
That's LUXURY compared to some Russian toilets I saw when over there....
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:22:29 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
I’m with you!
Sometimes when I read stuff like this, my head swims........
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:23:08 AM PDT
by
basil
(2ASisters.org)
To: Lazamataz
That's LUXURY compared to some Russian toilets I saw when over there.... A few years back my sister and her 20 year old daughter (who has a mild form of autism) went to Japan.When they came back my niece,who like many with autism can become fascinated by the strangest things (think "Rain Man"),came home with photo after photo of the toilet that was in their room.It was really fancy...appearing to be almost nuclear powered.It had lights and buttons...strange,to say the least.
To: Pilsner
NOW we know what the Al Qaeda threat is all about. Totally explains the embassy closures.
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:31:13 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(Obama will grab your guns and ship them to Mexican drug mobs.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Japan the Land of Amazing Toilets
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:37:57 AM PDT
by
molson209
(Hillary Clinton)
To: Pilsner
If I knew someone who had one, I would SO be doing this!
Meanwhile, a low-maintenance alternative:
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posted on
08/05/2013 7:43:46 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Gay State Conservative
And guys, whatever you do, don't press the red button!
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posted on
08/05/2013 8:09:42 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
To: Pilsner
“An attacker could”
What kind of sadistic SOB would turn on the bidet when you weren’t expecting it? Communists.
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posted on
08/05/2013 8:22:34 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: ErnBatavia
That describes most of the known world, with the possible exception of Antarctica, where the ambient temperature might discourage even a deviant of Clinton’s magnitude.
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posted on
08/05/2013 8:43:00 AM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: NonValueAdded
"Not the wed one! Don't EVER push the wed one!"
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posted on
08/05/2013 9:08:36 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
To: NonValueAdded
“Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would’ve immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom.”
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posted on
08/05/2013 9:11:02 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
While I normally despise and wish bodily harm on hackers; this is hacking that I can appreciate. This is funnier than hell. Technology can be stretched beyond the bounds of good sense and this is proof of it.
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posted on
08/05/2013 9:12:37 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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