LG Threatens To Put Wi-Fi in Every Appliance it Introduces in 2017 (arstechnica.com)

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LG Threatens To Put Wi-Fi in Every Appliance it Introduces in 2017 (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday January 9, 2017 @02:40AM from the Wi-Fi-everywhere dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: During the company's CES press conference today, LG marketing VP David VanderWaal says that "starting this year" all of LG's home appliances will feature "advanced Wi-Fi connectivity." One of the flagship appliances that will make good on this promise is the Smart Instaview Refrigerator, a webOS-powered Internet-connected fridge that among other things supports integration with Amazon's Alexa service.

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And Samsung... by ctrl-alt-canc · 2017-01-09 02:50 · Score: 4, Funny

...threatens to put a Lithium-Ion battery in every appliance!
LG's new spinn by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-09 02:54 · Score: 2, Funny

LG. You whole home can be a botnet now...
Re:Thank you LG! by elrous0 · 2017-01-09 02:55 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm starting to worry that I'm going to have to wrap my house in a Faraday cage in a few years just to prevent a Maximum Overdrive-style attack from my own fucking appliances

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Re:I don't see where the "threat" is... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-09 03:13 · Score: 2, Funny

So what you're saying is that if he drinks enough "quality scotch" that he won't notice that the remainder of his unrefrigerated food has gone bad.
Re:A bleak future by The-Ixian · 2017-01-09 03:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh man, what a nightmare.... you have to actually talk to and help your family upwards of 3 times a year? And they have probably never done a single thing (like a free meal) for you either!
I would sever ties right now, if I were you...

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Re: Thank you LG! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-09 03:47 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm sure a wifi enabled shoehorn is coming too
No! Not the toaster! by PPH · 2017-01-09 04:20 · Score: 5, Funny

My wife asked me why I carried my gun around the house.
"Decepticons", I replied.
She laughed. I laughed. The toaster laughed. I shot the toaster.

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GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG by Thud457 · 2017-01-09 04:48 · Score: 4, Funny

The Marketing Division of LG is a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

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Re:Thank you LG! by tripleevenfall · 2017-01-09 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Not me! I definitely want hackers to be able to shoot water and ice out of my refrigerator, and for it to upload "anonymized" data about all my activities and preferences for marketing purposes.
Re:Thank you LG! by Sperbels · 2017-01-09 05:42 · Score: 4, Funny

If you have nothing to hide in your refrigerator, then you have nothing to worry about.
Re:Thank you LG! by Darinbob · 2017-01-09 09:21 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm worried about last year's cottage cheese going bad and starting to download porn.