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LG Threatens To Put Wi-Fi in Every Appliance it Introduces in 2017 (arstechnica.com)
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.
...threatens to put a Lithium-Ion battery in every appliance!
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
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I'm sure a wifi enabled shoehorn is coming too
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.
Have gnu, will travel.
The Marketing Division of LG is a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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.
If you have nothing to hide in your refrigerator, then you have nothing to worry about.
I'm worried about last year's cottage cheese going bad and starting to download porn.