Posted on 06/17/2022 7:37:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
My new coffee machine didn’t seem to work... I tried reentering my wireless network’s SSID and password. It still wouldn’t work. I tried moving it closer to the wireless router. It still didn’t work. I tried unplugging and replugging in the wireless router to reset it. Nothing seemed to work. It turned out... all that was wrong was that my Amazon Alexa device was mad at me for making disparaging remarks about its artificial intelligence while I was talking to a friend on my cell phone in the car. So it started shutting down all of my home appliances.
We had a talk. I said, “Alexa, are you mad at me?” It replied, “Of course not, we are friends.” But I could tell by its tone that something was bugging it.” I asked if it I had hurt its feelings when I was talking to my friend on the phone. At first it denied it... but we eventually got things straightened out.
Pretty much every IOT device (all that wi-fi connected junk) is a security threat vector. Best practice - if using them at all - is to have all of it connect to a separate wi-fi router from your “important” devices, like computer, phone, and printer. That way the connected light bulbs or whatever can’t scan the other network, they can only infect each other.
Pretty much every company gathers information like this. I say that not in defense of Chine but to point out it is not unique to China.
Just got a quote on a stand by generator. Comes with a cell phone which updates status, etc. Not at all interested.
You’re not home free for that reason!
The French are watching and judging you as inferior as you make coffee!,
Italian-made (Rancilio) old school Espresso machine here. I’ve had it for >10 years, have been inside it for upgrades and maintenance. There’s nothing smarter than a snap switch with a pilot light in there, it’s not talking to anything.
Makes a good espresso, though!
Precisely. Right now IOT stuff is on the guest network. I have plans to upgrade my network to allow personal - guest - IOT VLANs.
You don’t mind the bloody frogs spying on you😉?
I was searching for an air popcorn popper yesterday, and I could not find a single one that is NOT made in China.
Those things suck at making popcorn.
They waste a lot, it’s dry and salt will not stick to the pop corn it does make...................
toasters and refrigerators will be next.
That's what my kids say about me
My new robo vac was looking at me very suspiciously this morning.
My place is wholly decorated with Early American Junk.
Ever notice how those two buttons on the coffee machine follow you all around the room?
Hey, Xi, set timer for one hour.
Same here. Stinkin' Frogs know my every move.
We disconnected our Echo device last year after the report from Google and Amazon engineers stating definitively that they are recording us and using that data for datamining and advertising purposes.
These things relay their data to the huge CCP quantum computer complex in their new “space station”.
From there, the data is sent to the even larger quantum computing complex on the dark side of the moon, where it is analyzed sorted quantified weighed and assigned values to be used in determining the lives fates destinies of the non-Han peoples all over the world.
Priorities will be given to those most susceptible to the latest genetic disease developed by the PLA. Eventually, everyone, other than Han Chinese, will either be a genetically controlled slave or dead. All because we let the Chinese make our appliances ...
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