Loony Of The Week

Hasn't anybody here heard about these things? These Devices May Be Spying On You (Even In Your Own Home)[qs] Think you are safe in your own home? These innocent-looking devices may be spying on you, or performing other nefarious actions:Your television
Your Kitchen Appliances
Your DVR/Cable-Box/Satellite-TV Receiver
Your Modem (and Internet Service Provider)
Your Smartphone
Your Webcam or Home Security Cameras
Your Telephone
Your Lights, Home Entertainment System, and Home Alarm System
Your Thermostat (Heat and/or Air Conditioning)
Your Laundry Equipment
Your Medical Devices
Your iPod or Other Entertainment Devices9 Household Products That May Be Spying on You - ABC NewsEdited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

with cameras

Of course we have heard of them and for the most part, laughed about them.And most also understand the simply precautions that should be taken. We are not all as clueless as Donald Trump.

Actually such spying is a deal. But it's limited to the capabilities of the device, so your thermostat could be telling the commies what temperature you like. And there are refrigerators with internal webcams so you can check if you need mayonnaise when you are at the store.Generally such IoT devices are much more of a threat because they typically have lousy security. Several of the recent DDOS attacks were from botnets consisting almost exclusively of infected IoT devices.

Oh my god! My dryer is telling WalMart what size jeans I wear?If I dry a smaller size pants will it also let Pizza Hut know so to fool them into e-mailing me some discount pizza coupons?

That explains the tin foil hats on my friend's toaster oven and vacuum cleaner.

Rachel Maddow has joined Geraldo, of Al Capone's vault fame with a vast nothingburger.

People are already shovelling their personal information onto Facebook so fast that the CIA can't read it all. Nobody needs to hack your toaster.

Ringo observes That's our best hope - glut them all with endless terabytes of endless twaddle. TMI!

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Your television
Your Kitchen Appliances
Your DVR/Cable-Box/Satellite-TV Receiver
Your Modem (and Internet Service Provider)
Your Smartphone
Your Webcam or Home Security Cameras
Your Telephone
Your Lights, Home Entertainment System, and Home Alarm System
Your Thermostat (Heat and/or Air Conditioning)
Your Laundry Equipment
Your Medical Devices
Your iPod or Other Entertainment Devices

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Those things might well leak information, but some of it is not worth worrying about. If you buy networked appliances, you are trading off security versus some level of convenience. For me that has not reached my kitchen appliances or my laundry equipment. For the rest of those things on the list, yes, I am well aware of what can be gotten from those things.

There are even devices out there whose sole purpose is surveillance and people are buying them without that fact being disclosed.Edited by jar, : forgot about home

I don't want my refrigerator pirating porn at night.

I'll bet the elfs sit on shelfs eating loafs of bread they cut with knifes. --Percy

This guy's conspiracy theory involves the Illuminati, gay marriage, the Zika virus, geo-engineering, "chemtrails", abortion, wars in the Middle East, GMO's, multiculturalism, vaccines and the flat Earth, because why not?

I like this guy. Far too many nutters will ally themselves with any other nutter who questions the 'official story'; even when their ideas are clearly in flat contradiction to one another. Not Stallings. A lot of his blog is dedicated to criticising geocentrists, creationists and biblical literalists who, nevertheless, believe the lie of the round earth. Uncompromising commitment to the cause.ABE: My respect is slightly lessened after reading some of the comments. He spends his time focusing on fundamentalists not because of a rigorous commitment to truth, but because he sees talking to anyone else as a waste of time.

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You obviously are now arguing from outside the authority of the Bible which has led to this problem in the first place. I will not waste my time with someone that is rejecting the very standard by which we determine truth.

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