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Discarded smart lightbulbs reveal your wifi passwords, stored in the clear
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Posted on 02/10/2019 6:38:37 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:39:53 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
To: ameribbean expat
The Internet of Things: What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:41:34 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ameribbean expat
Can you translate that into readable English? “in the clear?”
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:43:14 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: ameribbean expat
How many Democrats does it take to screw-in a smart light-bulb?
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:44:19 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: Fungi
To: Fungi
The security information is not stored encrypted. It’s straight text that anybody can read.
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:44:52 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: Fungi
“in the clear” means not encrypted. You can open and read it with Notepad or Word and any text editor.
To: dfwgator
Internet Of Shit That Never Should Be On The Internet
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:47:00 PM PST
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: ameribbean expat
All my lightbulbs are Marie Harf lightbulbs.
They’re too stupid to know anything.
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:47:41 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: Billthedrill
Okay. What’s a smart bulb?
L
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:47:57 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: ameribbean expat
Fortunately we still have about 300 incandescent bulbs of various wattages (60, 70, 100) left... None of them cares about WIFI passwords...
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:49:09 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: Lurker
Okay. What’s a smart bulb? You can communicate by WiFi with it to turn it on and off and dim it, is my guess. Seems like overkill.
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:51:20 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
To: ameribbean expat
I still use flourescent bulbs — dumb bulbs — and have hundreds in storage w/ my prepper stuff on 27 5-tier shelves, in the basement.
No worries, here. I break them before throwing them away, too.
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:52:40 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: ameribbean expat
What specific type bulb? CFL, LED, what? And by what link or connection would a light bulb in any room of my house record only passwords that are used on smart my phone or laptop in some other room in my house?
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:53:24 PM PST
by
Tucker39
("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
How? Does the bulb have a usb port to access the info? How does one get the info off the bulb?
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:53:52 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: ameribbean expat
Make a VPN to run the smart devices?
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:54:33 PM PST
by
the_daug
To: dfwgator
[T]he government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production.
— Friedrich Engels, 1877
Just like this was destined to go wrong, everything patterned after it does as well.
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:56:13 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sounds like a lightbulb for insufferable people who like to brag about their lightbulbs ... along with everything else.
To: Lurker; E. Pluribus Unum
That was my question.
I can turn on my own lightbulbs, thank you.
(I grew up having to actually get up off the couch to change the channel...)
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posted on
02/10/2019 6:58:24 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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