14 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

  1. A ready excuse for teenage boys everywhere. “Really Dad, I was watching Discovery channel and then the TV must’ve got hacked”.

  2. We have a Samsung “big-screen TV” connected to a Bell box. There is no way of controlling the TV to order a movie but someone could definitely increase the volume (oh the humanity!).
    I would be more worried about our Internet controlled thermostat. Imagine coming back from Aruba in January and your furnace his been shut off for 2 weeks.

  3. Boy, would I be ticked if my TV channels would be constantly switched to CBC or CTV.

  4. “OTOH, it’s CTV, so maybe they just made it up.”
    Ha, from the beginning of the CTV clip regarding computer hackers… “But lately they’ve been putting their sights on something new”.
    Did anyone else notice what that story they were covering was missing?
    How about EVEN ONE example of a TV actually being hacked.

  5. Most people think hacking works like it does in the movies.
    To successfully hack the TV, they have to get to the TV; that means either cracking your wifi password or breaking through the firewall on your home router. If they can do that, there’s juicier targets.

  6. I have a Sony and a Samsung. I gave the Sony the Samsung’s IP address and vice versa. If they’re so smart they can figure out what I did.

  7. I have NEST security cams inside my home (to monitor my son when we are on vacation). The cams are unplugged and disabled when we are home. They are only connected when we aren’t at home.
    My TV is only as “smart” as my Logitech Universal Remote. It can’t spy on me (other than monitor my FOX viewing habits … and report them to HER).

  9. *
    “My TV is only as “smart” as my
    Logitech Universal Remote.”
    c’mon, kenji… then what are all those naked
    pictures of you on social media?
    and what’s with the dress on that pony?
    *

  11. There’s a great sales legend in the business world that goes something like the founder of Otis Elevator demonstrating his product at some big product show got in his elevator and instructed men to cut the cables that pull the elevator up and down.
    The safety devices worked properly and his life was saved and his company prospered.
    Can’t wait for the head of Mercedes to get into one of their self driving cars after they announce to the world’s hackers to hack away….

  12. any chance future versions of ‘smart’ appliances come with a simple toggle switch clearly labelled ‘enable/disable smart technology’?
    hmmm? no fcukin’ way. if I had the ‘smarts’ I would market myself as an anti-tech guru and offer my services to make the modification.
    I posited eons ago during the early scourge of s/w viruses, a method of using banks of ROM chips to hold the desktop apps.
    try and ‘infect’ a ROM chip. and also alternatively a toggle switch on the hard drive once s/w had been installed and tested so that it was electronically completely impossible to write on the drive. the data would be parked on a different drive.
    etc etc. naturally, this idea would NEVER sell for fear of hampering the megaBillion dollar anti-virus utility market.

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