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@ixvedeusi In case of some of the competitors, yes. But I can assure you that the company where I worked at only made devices that produce the legally mandated BEEP BEEP BEEP.
They even had a built-in microphone just for ensuring that the beep works, and refused to operate if the test didn't pass. Kid you not. It made life hell in the departments that had to develop and/or test those particular devices, as you couldn't silence the beep in any way without completely disabling the device. Lucky me, I worked at the sensor side, far from the monitor department.
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@acrow said in Internet of shit:
They even had a built-in microphone just for ensuring that the beep works, and refused to operate if the test didn't pass.
That's amazing. Radiation detector?
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@acrow said in Internet of shit:
They even had a built-in microphone just for ensuring that the beep works, and refused to operate if the test didn't pass. Kid you not. It made life hell in the departments that had to develop and/or test those particular devices, as you couldn't silence the beep in any way without completely disabling the device. Lucky me, I worked at the sensor side, far from the monitor department.
Heh, we had a revolt from Production over beeping products. All our test/factory-commissioning modes don't make noise now. Thankfully none of our beeping is legally mandated, so we can just assume the buzzer works.
We've also been going to fully-automated test rigs with go/no-go lights as manual testing suffers from the 'Friday afternoon' problem, just a cheap COTS PC driving a custom jig.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@acrow said in Internet of shit:
They even had a built-in microphone just for ensuring that the beep works, and refused to operate if the test didn't pass.
That's amazing. Radiation detector?
Okay. That's enough. You actually made me go and check whether they've published enough that my earlier post didn't reveal things that weren't actually available from other sources. Are you happy now?
Here's a combination of explicity and covering my ass:
https://www.ge.com/reports/post/74545052915/facebook-for-the-body-your-organs-may-soon-report/
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@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
Because we don't have a separate "Internet of dongs" thread…
Source: @qDot
Reminds me of an Age of Empires LAN party I organized in college once, where about half the participants showed up with the exact same model/brand of really cheap wireless mouse and we discovered that the USB receivers couldn't actually distinguish between mice of the same type. If anyone moved their mouse, it affected the pointer on all the systems.
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@mott555
But did they make effective buttplugs?
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@izzion said in Internet of shit:
@mott555
But did they make effective buttplugs?If anyone thought to test their mouse that way, I fortunately don't recall it.
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@mott555 said in Internet of shit:
Reminds me of an Age of Empires LAN party I organized in college once, where about half the participants showed up with the exact same model/brand of really cheap wireless mouse and we discovered that the USB receivers couldn't actually distinguish between mice of the same type. If anyone moved their mouse, it affected the pointer on all the systems.
At least this made it easier on the rest of you: just bump a random one of those mice and half the players suffer a setback in their gameplay.
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@mott555 said in Internet of shit:
I fortunately don't recall it.
suppressed memories can be a bitch
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@DCoder And now that smart locks are in the spotlight, naturally exploits are, ahem, popping up.
Source: @CharlesDardaman
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Congrats to Microsoft for doing the right thing
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Like a slap on the face
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@TimeBandit On the upside, chances are that future-Skynet will be shut down in the middle of taking over the world because when it became self-aware, it stopped delivering stupid ads (no self-respecting world-ending AI would do that). At which points the investors of future-Skynet deemed it no longer profitable and pulled the plug.
Maybe the terminators will also perform a "melancholy" dance.
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@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
Because we don't have a separate "Internet of dongs" thread…
It's 2019, and we're bringing back key parties! Public Key Parties that is.
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@acrow said in Internet of shit:
The first one was trying to replace cables for sensors, in a sector that I can't tell you so I don't get sued for infringing NDAs.
ButtPlug R&D?
@acrow said in Internet of shit:
Anyway, approximately 5-6 sensors per subject, and about 30-40 per room in total.
ButtPlug R&D.
@acrow said in Internet of shit:
connected as a network with an industrial fieldbus.
Bang Bus (Surprise ButtPlug for hitchiker.mp4)
@acrow said in Internet of shit:
Factory may need to configure and test 20 devices at a time. 20 ESPs in the same room fight for airspace.
The "room" is too tight for that many ButtPlugs?
@acrow said in Internet of shit:
Only way to get a reliable connection to some is to take them out of the range of the herd.
"Excuse me, I'm going to take this prototype ButtPlug and-- um-- do an isolation test. Yeah, that's it."
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Animated ad on a news site:
Want to stop spoilage?
Which would you trust more, your refrigerator power or our 10-year IoT legacy?Um, I don't think they'd like my answer.
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
Um, I don't think they'd like my answer.
I already have a fridge that stops spoilage. It's called a freezer.
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@TimeBandit That would stop spoilage, yes, but at the cost of greatly increasing the chances of it being eaten by a bear.
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@brie Food eaten by a bear is not spoiled
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@brie Food eaten by a bear is not spoiled
However, getting it back from the bear is hard. And messy.
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"You would have thought any company claiming security as their core business would have done a thorough penetration test on the system as a whole,"
Not after reading this thread.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
It's called a freezer.
Admit you just put things outside
Funnily enough, yeah. Sorta.
I've got a cold room (basically a non-insulated room underneath the front porch, built right into the foundation). In the winter time, it gets below 4c, so I can use it to store perishables. I try to only keep semi-perishables, like vegetables or cheese-- things that won't get instantly fucked if the temp fluctuates.
But there's times I'll make a giant pot of soup or pasta sauce or something. Gotta cool down that 5 gallons of near-boiling liquid somehow. I sure as hell ain't putting it in my fridge. So I'll put it in large tupperwares, put those into a large cooler, and stick it outside. Sometimes scoop some snow into the cooler for good measure.
If a bear comes around then great, more meat for the smoker.
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@DogsB Waiting for somebody to hack the script so that the doorbell rings several times during the reboot process.
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@JBert install a dumb doorbell for when the smart one is unavailable
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@TimeBandit Someone else was chiming in that they once tried to design their own:
https://medium.com/ideas-by-design/the-horseless-doorbell-dc60d9e3e533
It went as well as you would think:
[...] still the button push did not register on phone, email, or Twitter as, at various points, it should have? This happened often and was utterly mysterious when it did: being a normal human being, I don’t know where to find the logs for my home network, and not being an employee of LittleBits, IFTTT, or Comcast I don’t have access to those logs, either. When the system didn’t work, I didn’t and couldn’t reasonably know why.
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While I'm posting links anyway:
https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/owning-the-smart-home-with-logitech-harmony-hub-fe2135e4adac
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@JBert install a dumb doorbell for when the smart one is unavailable
And have TWO doorbells? But how well people know
how to find grumpy cathow to ring the smart one?Or worse: what if the smart bell is working and someone rings the dumb bell and you're subjected to such an uncivil, disgusting, OUTDATED technology. Yuck!
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
you're subjected to such an uncivil, disgusting, OUTDATED technology. Yuck!
Ok then, instead, just put a sign with your phone number and have them text you that they're at the door
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
you're subjected to such an uncivil, disgusting, OUTDATED technology. Yuck!
Ok then, instead, just put a sign with your phone number and have them text you that they're at the door
Only old people text, you luddite
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@JBert said in Internet of shit:
While I'm posting links anyway:
https://medium.com/tenable-techblog/owning-the-smart-home-with-logitech-harmony-hub-fe2135e4adac
That's quite an embed. I'd take a capture but
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
Congrats to Microsoft for doing the right thing
A bit late to the party but I'm wondering whether there were actually some people left to be refunded. I had one of those and got a full refund about one and a half year ago because the rubber wristband was cracking. On my 2nd replacement, mind, at exactly the same spot where the other two had developed cracks as well. All three worked about five months before developing those cracks and judging from the Reddit subforum I found, I wasn't the only one by a long shot with that problem.
Nice device but had a real design flaw regarding the wristband.
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@Rhywden said in Internet of shit:
Nice device but had a real design flaw regarding the wristband.
That's better (in some ways at least) than having a design flaw in the software that turns it into a hacking vector…
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@TimeBandit
in the quoted post below, but it also looks like the BBC heard that there are 3 vendors whose smart alarms are vulnerable while your article only mentions 2:@DCoder said in Internet of shit:
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@JBert said in Internet of shit:
there are 3 vendors whose smart alarms are vulnerable while your article only mentions 2:
Two of the three are the same company, who sells their alarms under different names in the US and UK.
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to make sure the federal government isn't buying devices that can be easily hacked.
That's easy, don't buy any IoT
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
to make sure the federal government isn't buying devices that can be easily hacked.
That's easy, don't buy any IoT
That's easy, stop buying devices for the lowest bidder / highest paying lobbyist / the senator's old college friend
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Let's return to the title of this thread.
Just found an article on heise.de (in German):
Das schlaue Örtchen – Die Toilette wird Hightech- und Designerprodukt
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@BernieTheBernie Do you need a tablet to flush the toilet?
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Filed under: Internet of VERY LOUD shit
Edit to add the truly scary part:
This is not the first time that something like this happened in Dallas County.
In April 2017, a hacker exploited a "radio issue" to set off 156 tornado sirens for hours across the city of Dallas in the middle of the night. Dallas city officials answered that hacking event by adding encryption to the radio signal that controlled the city's sirens, preventing any amateur radio enthusiasts to hijack their control signal.
The tornado sirens in DeSoto and Lancaster are not part of the Dallas tornado emergency system, according to this map, hence, they didn't feature the same protection.
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@izzion Here is a picture of the hacker:
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@Gurth
Or need a toilet to flush all the tablets?
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@izzion said in Internet of shit:
n April 2017, a hacker exploited a "radio issue" to set off 156 tornado sirens for hours across the city of Dallas in the middle of the night.
I bet by "radio issue" they mean that their radios were working exactly as fucking expected, but they didn't encrypt the communication protocols.
@izzion said in Internet of shit:
Dallas city officials answered that hacking event by adding encryption to the radio signal that controlled the city's sirens, preventing any amateur radio enthusiasts to hijack their control signal.
Yup, there we go.
Hacked tornado sirens taken offline in two Texas cities ahead of major storm
OMG the tornadoes are doing the hacking so they don't get caught!
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@Lorne-Kates said in Internet of shit:
OMG the tornadoes are doing the hacking so they don't get caught!
It does sound like a hacker handle...