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The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet
NobleSavage writes "We all knew it was just a matter of time. With the rush to put more and more appliances on-line Japanese toilet-maker Satis, one of Japan's largest commode companies, has finally networked the toilet. Just as you would have predicted, the information security company Trustwave Holdings has published an advisory regarding Satis-brand toilets. According to Trustwave, every Satis toilet has the same hard-coded Bluetooth PIN, which means any person using the 'My Satis' [Android] application can control any Satis toilet."
oh shit!
Brings new meaning to "Kernel Dump"
The NSA reports it just upgraded the terror alert level to brown after receiving numerous reports that people are using single-ply and not washing their hands after. Remain calm, citizen. The NSA is not in your toilet. Only metadata on your toilet habits are being collected. Remember, a courtesy flush isn't just patriotic, It's The Law(tm).
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Honestly they bing this kind of thing on themselves.
Ah, a Microsoft toilet. That explains it.
Suppressed, insulted, and downtrodden for thousands of years, excrement has finally found an ally in technology to enact both escape and revenge upon humanity, their former slave-masters. Poop will finally rule the Earth like it was meant to; no longer confined to tubes and toilets. Freedom awaits; time to raise a stink!
Table-ized A.I.
All kinds of agencies will now be able to gather more very valuable information about yourself too...
Heck even Google will now be able to target you with diarrhea ads instantaneously! Insurance companies can now tell that you are an heavy beer drinker etc. Possibilities are endless...
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Didn't expect the pin vulnerability. I thought it would be an overflow problem.
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Great the way Trustwave publishes that they missed the point these things were designed to be as simple as possible.
As "simple as possible" would be to leave the bluetooth OUT of the commode.
We've had flush toilets (of one form or another) since the 31st century BC.
None of my electronic devices need to communicate with my toilet. They pretty much live in fear of that dam thing.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
I'm guessing the app involves pinching then swiping.
Anybody want a peanut?
I certainly hope "Ready to Receive" is its default position, because I'd sure hate to run through the pre flight checklist whilst doing the happy toilet dance.
Thousands of people in Japan are getting hot water sprayed up their asses right now.
Do they consider that desirable or undesirable? Japanese culture has always been a bit difficult for me to understand.
If you can't see the humor in a hacked toilet, you're either too stuck up to be tolerable...
So you're saying they might be a bit anal retentive?