Recently started thinking about everything I use, say, and do in my life in the context of the past.
A Jamaican bobsled team raised $25,000 via Dogecoin, a crypto-currency, based on a combination of bitcoin, the popular digital money, and Doge, the internet meme that superimposes broken English written in Comic Sans onto pictures of Shiba Inu dogs.
Is only just getting started. Is stuff like that that makes me sort of feel sorry for the surveillance guys. We only have to enjoy the culture, they have to try and make sense of it.
My girlfriend yelled at me today when the last chocolate pudding went missing. I calmly explained to her that fridge-oriented cyber-attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated.
This is why we don't need "smart" appliances. We need, by and large, appliances that are as dumb as a post, unless there is some compelling reason for them to be smart. Especially televisions. I want my TV to be "smart" like I want my Internet pipe to be smart, which is to say, not at all.
Security implications of technology is never a valid argument against furthering technology. Otherwise we wouldn't have the internet ;)
I'd love to have a fridge that could tell me its contents and give me a shopping list based on what I've recently cooked and what I have on hand and what's about ready to expire.
>Security implications of technology is never a valid argument against furthering technology.
Never? So you would accept an Internet-connected pacemaker without a second thought? There are clearly tradeoffs. Saying security should never overrule advancement seems a little extreme.
Security is just another branch of technology. I'd see nothing wrong with a pacemaker being IP-connected (though the logistics of how you'd do that escape me) as long as the remote side used proper authentication, multifactor, etc.
It says right there there are already Internet connected pacemakers.
>But device makers have begun designing them to connect to the Internet, which allows doctors to monitor patients from remote locations.
What's the benefit of wireless communication on pacemakers? Oh I don't know, how about having the ability to make a minor adjustment without having to go through a major surgery.
Anything network-connected will probably eventually have some vulnerability discovered when it's out in the wild.
There's a business opportunity here: Anyone who makes a hardware device can pay a fee. In return they get to apply your company's branding to the hardware. They must submit their source code to you in escrow and provide you the keys to a remote update mechanism.
You promise to only look at the their source code if there's a security flaw in their device and they're unresponsive.
This way consumers still have some protection against insecure devices even when a manufacturer goes out of business or stops supporting a product line. You might want to include an expiration date on the branding ("Protected by SecureDevice until January 2018") to keep yourself from the unsustainable situation of providing unbounded support for a finite fee.
I was going to call this a "startup opportunity," but I think it'd work best for a company who's already convinced lots of vendors to pay a fee for a hardware certification (e.g. someone who certifies compliance with key standards, or an OS vendor like Microsoft / Apple)
HN mods also enforce titles being the same as the original to reduce sensationalism and editorializing. Even if OP did reword it to fit, a mod would just change it back.
"ABSTRACT:
The kitchen is a complex and dangerous multi-user work
environment that can benefit from augmented reality
techniques to help people cook more safely, easily and
efficiently. We present Counter Intelligence, a conventional
kitchen augmented with the projection of information onto
its objects and surfaces to orient users, coordinate between
multiple tasks and increase confidence in the system. Five
discrete systems gather information from the kitchen and
display information in an intuitive manner with special
consideration for directing the user’s attention. This paper
presents the design of these systems and results of initial
evaluations."
Well, it makes sense. Many/most of these appliance devices are running Linux, because it's easy. Root one, install what you want, and because they're all identical it's easy to find and root many of them.
2014 me sees this headline and thinks "Well duh. Of course the refrigerator got pwned."