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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
Once connected to WiFi it upgrades itself with the latest software updates and provides remote troubleshooting capabilities.
And needs an internet connection
That amounts to the same thing for a lot of people these days, apparently. Or so I realised the other day, when Netflix informed me about the ability to download movies for when I “don’t have wifi” — um … my computer’s wifi is turned off, but I can watch Netflix on it just fine, thanks.
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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
Rotimatic comes with a one-year local warranty
Still better than LG's.
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@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
Doesn't everyone have video surveillance throughout their facilities? Or is that just me?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
Doesn't everyone have video surveillance throughout their facilities? Or is that just me?
Do you rent your facilities on AirBnB? Also, no.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
Doesn't everyone have video surveillance throughout their facilities? Or is that just me?
There are some areas like toilets, locker rooms and bedrooms which are expressly forbidden from video surveillance.
I think this should have also been reported to the police and not merely to AirBnB.
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@rhywden said in Internet of shit:
toilets, locker rooms and bedrooms which are expressly forbidden
Boring. No, the best and most juicy conversations seem to happen at the dinner table or living room...
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https://www.twosixlabs.com/bluesteal-popping-gatt-safes/
The VT20i is a very popular product designed for the safe storage of firearms...
In summary:
Which brings us to our final vulnerability, the safe does not check the pin code transmitted ... and will reply with a proper authorization token no matter what is in the field.
:atomic_facepalm:
The system.out.println debug messages sprinked around the bundled android app are just the topping on the shit sundae.
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@bb36e said in Internet of shit:
The system.out.println debug messages sprinked around the bundled android app are just the topping on the shit sundae.
Literally the first code sample you come across when using android tells you to use
Log.d
. This is some impressive levels of fail.
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@bb36e said in Internet of shit:
system.out.println debug messages
In Chinese, no less!
@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
This is some impressive levels of fail.
Yes, very impressive. Hell, if it does not even check the PIN, it means the negative case was apparently not even covered by acceptance test.
Also, the core was clearly readable after disassembling with meaningful symbol names. Since Android SDK comes with an obfuscator bundled, it shows they didn't even care to follow the documented project setup through.
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@bb36e Soo, something produced by a company called Vautek isn't working as advertised? :D
I'm surprised it didn't spray the user with some form of mutagenic hallucinogen.
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@mrl said in Internet of shit:
@bulb said in Internet of shit:
acceptance test
The what?
Hey. The compiler accepted it.
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@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
@bb36e said in Internet of shit:
The system.out.println debug messages sprinked around the bundled android app are just the topping on the shit sundae.
Literally the first code sample you come across when using android tells you to use
Log.d
. This is some impressive levels of fail.If they were self aware they would be using Log.wtf
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@mrl said in Internet of shit:
@bulb said in Internet of shit:
acceptance test
The what?
The part where they tested that all PINs were accepted.
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It seems they were also selling DDOS mitigation services
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@sockpuppet7 said in Internet of shit:
It seems they were also selling DDOS mitigation services
That's an old-school protection racket right there; I like it.
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The author of BrickerBot retires after bricking more than 10 millions IoT devices
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Back to physical keys
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@carnage said in Internet of shit:
@bb36e Soo, something produced by a company called Vautek isn't working as advertised? :D
I'm surprised it didn't spray the user with some form of mutagenic hallucinogen.Not being familiar with the Neo-Humans stuff, I was wondering if the article just misspelled the name. Still more trustworthy than Pulowski, Poseidon, or HalluciGen, not that that is saying much really, and 'more trustworthy' definitely doesn't mean 'less dickish' - trusting someone to fuck you over just means you can see it coming.
Anyway, back in the real world, yeah, naming your company something so similar to a fictional corporation known for experimenting on hapless victims probably isn't the smartest PR decision. You might as well call yourselves Waylan-Yutani or Umbrella Corporation at that point.
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@timebandit said in Internet of shit:
Back to physical keys
I’m now waiting for a news report about somebody taking one of this hotel's room keys to a shop where you can get duplicates made and then coming back later to rob the people now staying in the room.
His hotel's electronic door locks and other systems were hacked for ransom four times, between December 2016 and January 2017.
No time elapses between those two months, as one begins the instant the other ends. Maybe try this:
His hotel's electronic door locks and other systems were hacked for ransom four times,
betweenin December 2016 and January 2017.or:
His hotel's electronic door locks and other systems were hacked for ransom four times, between early December 2016 and late January 2017.
Also, WTF, BBC? I need Flash to view videos?
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Great...
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@gurth said in Internet of shit:
Also, WTF, BBC? I need Flash to view videos?
I think that's for checking the country you're in and restricting videos if they haven't got the rights for that country. At least, I regularly get "video not available vin your country" when not in the UK and I assume that the Flash thing is related to that (their "iPlayer" apps for video use Flash as well).
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@twelvebaud said in Internet of shit:
I was watching this bits at a time. I guess she's not happy about it; last time I paused the video she gave me a stare:
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@remi said in Internet of shit:
@gurth said in Internet of shit:
Also, WTF, BBC? I need Flash to view videos?
I think that's for checking the country you're in and restricting videos if they haven't got the rights for that country.
No. I don’t think so. iPlayer just tells me the video isn’t available, while this one probably is — unless the Flash player checks that too, after it’s loaded (but I don’t feel like enabling Flash to check).
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@zecc said in Internet of shit:
I was watching this bits at a time.
I don't even see the code anymore. All I see is blonde, brunette, dissatisfiedly glaring redhead...
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@gurth said in Internet of shit:
@remi said in Internet of shit:
@gurth said in Internet of shit:
Also, WTF, BBC? I need Flash to view videos?
I think that's for checking the country you're in and restricting videos if they haven't got the rights for that country.
No. I don’t think so. iPlayer just tells me the video isn’t available, while this one probably is — unless the Flash player checks that too, after it’s loaded (but I don’t feel like enabling Flash to check).
Maybe (this is just a wild-ass guess, I have absolutely zero idea whether this is likely or even possible to do) the default when you have no Flash is to deny access to the video, and you need to have Flash (and for Flash to validate e.g. your country) to actually get the video? This would be a simple way to make sure people don't circumvent the location check (done by Flash) by simply disabling it?
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@remi Yes, that’s pretty much a longer version of what I was saying :)
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Not @polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
My aunt got a google home for Xmas & she already has “Alexa”. This morning we were messing around with the google home and asked, “okay google what do you think of Alexa” and it answered “I like her blue light” and from across the room Alexa turned on and said “thanks”. im scared
I’m more scared of my Apple TV after something that happened yesterday. I was watching a show on TV (not via Apple TV) the night before, but didn’t watch it all the way through. Next morning, I downloaded a torrent of it so I could see the rest, and after converting it to MP4 and throwing it into iTunes, I started up the Apple TV. When told to play the show, it asked whether I wanted to resume where I left off or watch from the beginning, and when I said to resume, it began pretty much at the point where I changed channels the night before. Who the hell is spying on me?!
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@lb_ said in Internet of shit:
It's almost like they want people to reconsider letting an internet-connected robot spy on all their conversations...
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@anotherusername
It's like the Nigerian scammers. They want to weed out all the smart people as quickly as possible, so all they're left with are whales.
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@gurth This proves Apple knows what is best for us!
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@anotherusername If anyone ever gifts me one of those things, I'll just stick it in the white elephant gift exchange we do. (The one where you either pick a wrapped present or steal from someone else - we do limit 2 steals per gift)
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Local hardware store. Two TVs (I think?) and a fridge.
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This will either usher in the golden age of IoT that actually does cool things, or it will bring about SkyNet.
I bet on SkyNet.
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
I bet on SkyNet.
Yes, except that instead of nuclear annihilation it will focus on extorting the owners of Minecraft servers.
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@polygeekery That's actually pretty cool, despite the bad German accent.
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@topspin it is pretty cool tech. Amazing range and battery life.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
Two TVs (I think?) and a fridge.
The VIErA seems to be (most likely) a Panasonic TV, and Bravia is a Sony TV. Also interesting that the fridge has a better wifi signal than the TVs.
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@polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
@topspin it is pretty cool tech. Amazing range and battery life.
I wonder though, if we can't even get a bunch of Bluetooth keyboards to operate conflict-free in the same room, how the heck is this going to operate with that range in the suburbs?
Granted, its different technology, different protocols and a different bandwidth requirement. However, the way some people could go sensor-crazy I'd see some congestion cropping up, which won't help with the low-power requirement...
Also the thing apparently streamed the event data to the manufacturer's servers before forwarding it to the end user? That seems some real IoT bullshit right there.
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@jbert said in Internet of shit:
Also the thing apparently streamed the event data to the manufacturer's servers before forwarding it to the end user? That seems some real IoT bullshit right there.
It is a demo board. That was the out of box configuration. Later in the video he captured the data himself directly. At least that's the way I took it.
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@gurth said in Internet of shit:
Also interesting that the fridge has a better wifi signal than the TVs.
Why? TVs and frigs are (usually) in different departments. So the OP is simply closer to the frig.
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@dcon frig ≠ fridge
Filed Under: If you keep touching your cucumber, you'll go blind.
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@scholrlea said in Internet of shit:
@dcon frig ≠ fridge
Filed Under: If you keep touching your cucumber, you'll go blind.
Internet of frigs?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
Internet of frigs?
Free porn is readily available on the internet, so you're not far off.