Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats
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@Jaloopa said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
If you drive less than 300 miles to work every day the odds are good that your battery has enough juice to get you home and back in the next day.
Unless you get stuck in a traffic jam (we call that normal traffic - the reporters never even mention the areas here that typically back up) and forget to turn your air conditioning (or heating) off.
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@dcon said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
@Jaloopa said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
If you drive less than 300 miles to work every day the odds are good that your battery has enough juice to get you home and back in the next day.
Unless you get stuck in a traffic jam (we call that normal traffic - the reporters never even mention the areas here that typically back up) and forget to turn your air conditioning (or heating) off.
Forget to turn it off? Why would you turn off your A/C? Oh, right, it might not be a necessity in other parts of the world. But here in Arizona, it is pretty much a deal breaker for electric vehicles as commuter cars.
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@abarker said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
Forget to turn it off? Why would you turn off your A/C? Oh, right, it might not be a necessity in other parts of the world. But here in Arizona, it is pretty much a deal breaker for electric vehicles as commuter cars.
I regularly keep my A/C off if possible under the illusion that one less thing taking power from the engine and lowering my fuel efficiency.
This isn't the case, as the ECU actually lowers fuel delivery so that it "achieves" the same fuel efficiency, but man is it annoying to feel gutless just because the A/C is on...
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@groo I'm going to start reporting my weight as "170 lbs | kg" and my height as "180 cm | feet".
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@boomzilla said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
That was what I thought you meant, but it seems like the kind of thing you'd complain about the businesses taking advantage of the workers. It could also lead to nasty surprises if you have to leave early and find that your car hasn't been charged.
Probably going to want to improve the number of charge cycles you can get, too. I'd be a bit peeved if my work was wearing out my battery pack.
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@flabdablet said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
If the workers get to leave the building with their cars at least 70% charged every workday, and the employer isn't charging them to charge their cars, that reads "perk" to me, not "exploitation".
What if my car was 80% charged when I got there?
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@FrostCat Exploiting one-day blow-in contractors is acceptable.
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@Jaloopa said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
@boomzilla said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
It could also lead to nasty surprises if you have to leave early and find that your car hasn't been charged
If you drive less than 300 miles to work every day the odds are good that your battery has enough juice to get you home and back in the next day. On average you'd be gaining more charge than you're losing
I expect they wouldn't drain below some percentage. You could probably also opt out by paying.
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@flabdablet said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
Exploiting one-day blow-in contractors is acceptable.
Maybe to you. You realize the contractors will just adjust their rates to compensate for the loss, right?
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@FrostCat said in Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats:
Maybe to you. You realize the contractors will just adjust their rates to compensate for the loss, right?
UBC now!