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Sex robots could be hacked to murder people
indy100.com/ ^
Posted on 01/01/2018 12:16:52 PM PST by BenLurkin
Just when you thought it was advanced computer systems and the military that were out to get us, it turns out that sex robots - the very machines designed to give us pleasure - could be about to kill us too.
Sex robots have been with us for quite a few years now and they have already attracted their fair share of warnings and controversy.
However, a warning from Dr Nick Patterson, a cybersecurity lecturer at Deakin University, Australia has to be the starkest yet.
He believes that in the future sex robots could be easier for hackers to access and control than a laptop or a mobile phone.
From there these remotely controlled cyborgs could be used for all sorts of nefarious means such as violence and murder.
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Dr Patterson goes on to add that - like smartphones - robots will need an operating system that will need to be connected to the Internet, making it easier to hack into.
(Excerpt) Read more at indy100.com ...
TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2018; 2018predictions; australia; deakinuniversity; prediction; predictions; robot; robots
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:16:52 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
That’s a title I never imagined I’d see.
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:18:29 PM PST
by
Salvavida
(The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
To: BenLurkin
Feminazis would be okay with sex robots raping and killing men. Fight the patriarchy and oppression. < /s >
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:19:07 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: Salvavida
I never thought of myself as particularly naive, but why would a sex robot need internet connectivity?
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:20:25 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: BenLurkin
>>robots will need an operating system that will need to be connected to the Internet,
No one believes in firmware anymore, it’s all got to be “the internet of things”. Smart tvs (reporting to the home office what your viewing habits are, how many people watch with you, etc.) and more. Why does a coffeemaker have to be on the internet?
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:21:07 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: Joe 6-pack
“for you own good”
Be seeing you, Number 6.
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:21:39 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: a fool in paradise
You mean...like this....?
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:23:08 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: a fool in paradise
It is a recipe for disaster, imo.
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:23:58 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
How about self driving cars? Elevators? Escalators? How about cell phones programed to slow down or blow up? Will the sexbots overdose us on Viagra?
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:24:13 PM PST
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
To: BenLurkin
“yer plooging too hard! plooging to hard...on me.....”
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:24:30 PM PST
by
mylife
( The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Joe 6-pack
I never thought of myself as particularly naive, but why would a sex robot need internet connectivity? The maker will require a $249/year subscription for automatic updates (new positions and techniques) that are necessary to avoid "security and reliability issues."
Nobody ever just sells stuff, any more. :)
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:26:42 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
To: Joe 6-pack
why would a sex robot need internet connectivity?I'm guessing it's because they're not actually clasical robots, i.e. autonomous. They're probably more like remote-operated devices.
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:26:55 PM PST
by
agere_contra
(Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
To: agere_contra
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:27:44 PM PST
by
agere_contra
(Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
To: BenLurkin
Murder people? Will they all look like Hillary? If so, no worries, NO ONE will buy them.
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:28:18 PM PST
by
FrankR
(On the knees is not a good place to be...a man on the knees is only half a man.....)
To: BenLurkin
I am sure these robots would have password protection.
Perhaps some nefarious person might obtain a back-door password to get in.
To: BenLurkin
Not just robots.
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:31:52 PM PST
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: BenLurkin
Some of them look human. There are many copies.
And they have a plan.
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:31:56 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(Liberalism, as with all else evil, can never create. It can only corrupt.)
To: mylife
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:32:18 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: plain talk
Yup. Back door.
Wait....what?
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posted on
01/01/2018 12:33:09 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Yeah Philip K. Dick figured this out a half century ago.
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