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F-Troop and the 'Internet of Thingies' (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the using-the-internet-to-turn-a-teakettle-on-and-off dept.

F-Troop? This is an interview with IT journalist Tom Henderson, who managed to get a mention of F-Troop into a serious(ish) discussion of "Internet of Things" insecurities. And, says Tom, the more things we hook to the Internet, the more potential security problems we create. Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks? Hmmm....

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  1. The Internet of Things by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Starring Ken Berry and Forest Tucker. I guess it's better than "The Internet of Things, RFD"...

    Oh, and get off my lawn.

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  2. F-Troop IS for serious discussions. by meglon · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Don't think of it as retreating, think of it as advancing in a different direction."

    Pups.

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  3. Re:What? by grimmjeeper · · Score: 2

    It's an old TV show. It was before my time and I'm reaching greybeard status. No surprise a lot of people haven't heard of it.

  4. Unplug? by grimmjeeper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it time to unplug everything because of the growing amount of unvetted software we're adding to our home and business networks?

    A lot of us never understood the point of plugging all that stuff into the internet in the first place.

  5. Or, it's just STUPID by argStyopa · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or, maybe the whole "internet of things" that a very small group of people seem to be talking about ALL THE FUCKING TIME is just an idiotic thing that isn't actually going to take off, because grownups understand that there are things that aren't necessarily meaningfully better (in ways that outweigh the new failure risks) connected to other things?

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  6. Re:What? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2

    McHale's Navy would have been a better choice.