Once upon a time I thought one of those devices could be handy.
Now I won’t have one in my home. I have a washer/dryer that *CAN* connect to the internet, but they don’t have the internal password, so they are not allowed online.
This is as creepy as I can imagine, and I’m sure it will get even more intrusive.
All you bandwidth are belong to us!
You know when it really gets creepy? When you shoes will have embedded chips and they can track all your movements. If there is a mistress involved, best to wear old shoes or go barefoot.
I've read of hackers gaining access to homes through like devices. One was the refrigerator and the other was the fish tank heater. Hackers have way more time on their hands than is prudent. I have to not only logon and use my password but have the company give me a text code to type in for me to pay my bill online. I'm thinking, like somebody else is going to hack in and pay my bill for me? But one can't be too secure. No Alexas or Siris for me.
>Once upon a time I thought one of those devices could be handy.
>Now I won’t have one in my home. I have a washer/dryer that >*CAN* connect to the internet, but they don’t have the >internal password, so they are not allowed online.
Most IOT devices do not require a password to connect to your router, I know the Echo dot does not, never gave it a password and it didn’t ask but it still got an IP and connected online. Same with 5 IP webcams I got, 2 different manufacturers, all get an IP and connect without ever been given a password. Somehow it works around it. DHCP is enabled so maybe it exploits that but trying to make a point no password was ever given to these things
“This is as creepy as I can imagine, and I’m sure it will get even more intrusive.”
It might, and oh BTW, you left your water running yesterday but I shut it off for you from my remote after I got an alert.
Well... you won't believe what your dryer told my dryer about you the other day. Man O Man.