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The Latest Security Vulnerability: Your Toilet

Posted by samzenpus on from the reverse-the-flow dept.

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."

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  1. obligatory by kcmastrpc · · Score: 5, Funny

    oh shit!

    1. Re:obligatory by Jetra · · Score: 5, Funny

      I heard of crapware, but this takes the cake.

    2. Re:obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, you're mistaken. The urinal takes the cake.

    3. Re:obligatory by countach74 · · Score: 5, Funny

      This clearly makes it even more important to wear one's toilet safety belt.

  2. "We all new" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I stopped reading right there.

  3. Surprised me by CODiNE · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't expect the pin vulnerability. I thought it would be an overflow problem.

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  4. Why? by Cordus+Mortain · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean really - why would you network a toilet?

  5. Re:rly? by icebike · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. the short answer is: telemedicine by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's basically an upgraded version of traditional Chinese physicians smelling the emperor's feces as a diagnostic tool

    chemical assays of one's urine and feces can test for many health concerns, monitor your diet, and if your medicines need to have their doses adjusted

    you'd sit on your toilet in the morning, and then get a message from your doctor saying there's elevated levels of marker in your urine and he wants you to come in the office to check something out

    that's the utopian vision anyways

    for the dystopian vision, check out all the other comments here

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