Althouse: "Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack."

March 8, 2015

"Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack."

"Fridge caught sending spam emails in botnet attack."

Via "My toaster hates you."

9 comments:

traditionalguy said...: The Cold War is back.; 3/8/15, 7:17 PM
Jimmy said...: In just a few years canned goods will be a part of the Internet of Things. Then spam can send itself.
posted by rouftop at 7:27 AM on March 8 [14 favorites]
Great comment on thread.; 3/8/15, 7:45 PM
gadfly said...: William Perry has returned!; 3/8/15, 10:44 PM
Larry J said...: For the life of me, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to have their appliances connected to the Internet.; 3/9/15, 7:35 AM
Xmas said...: Ahhhh....

The "Internet of Things that People Don't Pay Attention To".

Or The "Internet of Things That Can Be Easily Hijacked".

It's the wave of the future!; 3/9/15, 8:11 AM
pst314 said...: Larry J "For the life of me, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to have their appliances connected to the Internet."

A childish infatuation with useless tech?

A silly fear that they won't know when they are running low on milk unless their fridge emails them?; 3/9/15, 8:28 AM
jr565 said...: That was skynets first strike; 3/9/15, 11:38 AM
Larry J said...: pst314 said...
Larry J "For the life of me, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to have their appliances connected to the Internet."

A childish infatuation with useless tech?

A silly fear that they won't know when they are running low on milk unless their fridge emails them?

All of this sounds like solutions in search of a problem. I've heard people talk about connected appliances for years but have yet to heard a rational reason for it. That, and the sad fact that most of these so-called smart appliances have very poor cyber security just makes the whole idea questionable. For example, how will your refrigerator know what food is inside? Will there be a bar code or RFID reader to scan the groceries you buy?

It reminds me of a "The Big Bang Theory" episode where Sheldon is putting ID tags on all of his clothing and entering everything into a database to help him decide what clothes to wear. The amount of work it was taking to enter all of the information was likely many times that you could save with such a system.; 3/9/15, 12:21 PM
ken in tx said...: I say let the people richer than me beta test this stuff. If it proves useful, the price will come down and the kinks will be worked out. I remember when digital watches cost thousand $, and couldn't be read in the sun. Today, if you wanted one, you can get it for less than $10, but you don't because every appliance you own already has a digital clock on it.; 3/9/15, 3:30 PM