FLASHBACK - CIA Director David Petraeus: "We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher"

Common Sense Evaluation ^

[gaggs]

In a 2012 Wired article, entitled, “CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher,” then CIA Director David Petraeus heralded emerging technologies in relation to spying.

[Regulator]

Because the American Revolution was all ab out enabling the Police State.

[al baby]

Well he will see me scratch little al and the twins while im waiting for my toast to be done

[LostPassword]

It doesn’t matter if they spy on ME. The “it doesn’t matter if you have nothing to hide” argument is irrelevant.

If they can spy on ME, they can spy on the candidate I want to vote for. And his/her campaign staff, family, vote counters. And on the supreme court and congress.

My dishwasher can collect anything they want. I don’t care. But prove to me that Trump’s dishwasher can’t spy on him. And justice Roberts’ toaster. And Ryan’s phone. My personal privacy is important, but that’s where the real danger to our country is.

[lee martell]

That line sounds like something George Harrison would have sung in the song “TaxMan”.
“We’ll spy on you through your dishwasher!”

[Beowulf9]

“That line sounds like something George Harrison would have sung in the song “TaxMan”.
“We’ll spy on you through your dishwasher!””

“Don’t ask me what I want it for...”

[GOPJ]

I have a Samsung Smart TV.

And a washing machine that’s interested in calling in repair problems behind my back. The toaster’s neutral - seems friendly enough...but the Infinity AC Thermostat’s been acting up - I think it’s talking about me.

Twenty years ago this would have been reason enough to have someone committed. (OK, a little tongue in cheek stuff here...)

[exit82]

My wife asked me why I carried a gun around the house all the time. I told her it was to protect against the CIA. She laughed. I laughed.

The Samsung TV laughed.

I shot the TV.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The IOT requires a WiFi connection in order to spy on you, right?

Just don't let the damned things have access to your router.

[pnz1]

Yes, we were recently looking at refrigerators.. one had wifi and a touch screen on the front.. I just want water and ice in the door!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Unless you give it the password to your secure WiFi connection, it can’t tell anybody anything.

Why would you need a “smart” refrigerator in the first place? So you can monitor the temperature of your beer from your phone?

That was a rhetorical question.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I bet that if you don’t connect it to WiFi that an LEO agency could set up a hidden WiFi hotspot year your house and the thing will automatically log into it so that even if you don’t let it use your router they can still use it to spy on you if they decide they want to.

[pnz1]

Well there’s an app to see what’s in your fridge from your phone, the front has screen you can stream video or music, do the family schedule, etc. oh and some you can tap screen and see what’s inside without opening door.. no way we’re getting one..

[Axenolith]

Remember the scene with the woman and robot in the first Heavy Metal...
“I’m afraid I’ll come home one day and find you screwing the toaster”...

[fella]

This is a jewel of a find.

[fella]

Re; #8:

Your phone has already reported you to the interested authorities and your fate is under review.

[null and void]

The toaster’s neutral - seems friendly enough...

RED DWARF Season IV Episode 4, "White Hole"

1 Toaster View.

The screen hums and crackles with white noise, which clears to a computer display:

BOOT UP SEQUENCE INITIATED

Clears to display:

VISUAL SYSTEM CCD 517.3
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM K177
MACHINE IDENT: TALKIE TOASTER
=============
MANUFACTURER: TAIWAN
(( CRAPOLA INC.))
RECOMMENDED RETAIL PRICE:
=============
$#19.99 PLUS TAX

Clears to display:

AURAL SYSTEM: ON-LINE

This vanishes, to be replaced with a view of KRYTEN; it is heavily biased toward the chin, as though shot from beneath, and through a yellow filter. As we watch, the yellow fades, to be replaced by colours.

KRYTEN: Hello? Can you hear me? Oh, no, of course not: I haven't engaged your verbal systems.

He presses some buttons on an off-screen keyboard.

LISTER: (From offscreen) Kryten.

2 Int. Science room.

LISTER approaches KRYTEN.

LISTER: Kryten, what you doing, man?
KRYTEN: I've just repaired the toaster, Sir. Well, I've nearly repaired the toaster. LISTER: Oh NO, man! Dismantle him! You don't know what the little bleeder's like!
KRYTEN: Well, I've read all the documentation, Sir. He's simply a talking alarm clock who provides his owner with early morning toast and light conversation.
LISTER: Not this one. This one's mental!
KRYTEN: Sir?
LISTER: He's defective. He wants everyone to eat toast ALL OF THE TIME. He's obsessed with it. And if you don't want to eat, like, four hundreds rounds of toast EVERY HOUR, he throws a major wobbly. That's what caused the accident in the first place.
KRYTEN: What accident?
LISTER: The accident involving me, the toaster, the waste disposal and the fourteen pound lump-hammer.
KRYTEN: That explains why he was down in the garbage hold in three thousand separate pieces.
LISTER: Another thing. He always says "Howdy doodly do." Drives you spare. I mean, what the smeg does "Howdy doodly do" mean?
KRYTEN: Well, just trust me, Sir. My motives will become clear.

He presses some more buttons on the keyboard. The TOASTER lights up and speaks. Its bread-lowering lever moves up and down as it speaks with its mid-Atlantic accent in an impossibly cheerful tone:

TOASTER: Howdy doodly do! How's it going? I'm Talkie -- Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
LISTER: Look, _I_ don't want any toast, and _he_ (indicating KRYTEN) doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. NO TOAST.
TOASTER: How 'bout a muffin?
LISTER: OR muffins! OR muffins! We don't LIKE muffins around here! We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and DEFINITELY no smegging flapjacks!
TOASTER: Aah, so you're a waffle man!
LISTER: (to KRYTEN) See? You see what he's like? He winds me up, man. There's no reasoning with him.
KRYTEN: If you'll allow me, Sir, as one mechanical to another. He'll understand me. (Addressing the TOASTER as one would address an errant child) Now. Now, you listen here. You will not offer ANY grilled bread products to ANY member of the crew. If you do, you will be on the receiving end of a very large polo mallet.
TOASTER: Can I ask just one question?
KRYTEN: Of course.
TOASTER: Would anyone like any toast?
KRYTEN: Didn't you HEAR what I just said?
TOASTER: Yes, but I thought you might have changed your mind in the meantime.
LISTER: You see? You see what he's like?

[Inkie]

I think Samsung will take a big hit in lower sales and stock price after this. Was that the only brand named? It’s the only one I heard.

[TexasTransplant]

A couple months ago my Internet was down for 6-8 hrs because of a Denial of Service Attack, on this Forum it was postulated that it was a Test ... basically in the end the theory was that “All Things Internet” were contacted at once and tasked and that overloaded the Internet itself (Coffee Makers, Refrigerators, Stoves, HVAC etc etc).
It was a successful Test, originating from all over the World.
Folks far more qualified than I may want to weigh in.
Just a thought