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Unless it knows my wifi router password, it’s not communicating anything back to the home office.
WIFI I protected......unless my passwords are hacked, my toaster can not watch me.
Actually I have other things to worry about rather my toaster spying on me or not.
I make it a point not to buy a toaster smarter than I am.
What would be the advantage for the consumer be of their dish washer connected to the internet? Let’s say there is a problem with operation, or sends a code to Maytag, then what? Couldn’t the code just flash a signal to the consumer so they can get the repair man out to fix it?
Think about how baby monitors communicate. If an appliance is “smart”, it doesn’t need wifi, or ethernet. It can communicate directly with the electric meter via the power lines.
I will not ever need a toaster that can communicate other than have a distinctive pop-up sound when the toast is done.
I suspected as much when I noticed by dishwasher following me around the house. Every time I stopped and looked at it, though, it turned a different direction and pretended to be working. I thought maybe I was just paranoid.
(It rose to public consciousness - the meaning of 'is' - and now; we are not able to define,that which IS our 'OWN'. Clearly depends on 'whose' definition we adhere to.)
Why not, just give it all, to these Lefties. . .it is what made Nazi Germany; and empowered Stalin; and Mao; dictators Et Al. Absolute power; the 'allowance' of absolute power (though certainly resisted by many; if not enough; or by those, too late smart. . .) is what it what it is.. and it is what the Left wants. Their 'future' - their livlihood; depends on it. Always. . .
I scared away the guy that came to put in a water dept. “smart meter” at our house this spring. I happened to have bronchitis at the time and worked up a crazy coughing fit while telling the fellow that my Dr. warned that I couldn’t have such a device in my home. I was hacking and wheezing and saying all the while that I had been warned the thing would interfere with my “medical devices”.
I have no medical devices. Yet.
Anyway he flew to the front door and stumbled all over his equipment trying to get away from the flu bug he thought I had. I kept telling him he couldn’t catch what I had. He looked at me like I was a potential murderer. It was funny.
A different guy showed up the next time, and told me that the first one had CUT THE LINE TO THE EXISTING METER on the outside of the house. He said that’s what they were doing, then they call and say there is a problem with your meter and it needs to be changed. That’s how they are doing it around here.
Sneak up to your house, cut your line, tell you it’s the meter and they have to “estimate” your bill until the thing is “fixed”. Then the guy shows up and installs the smart meter without telling you that’s what he’s doing. Guy #2 fixed the cut wire and started up my old meter.
I see a potential for marketing “dumb” appliances. Think of the sales slogans for such!
What’s next - condoms with RFID chips?
Hmm, that could be interesting...
Are we all gonna die?
Wouldn’t it be easy enough to assign IP addresses to the appliances and block those IP addresses from accessing the internet?
Appliances these days are complete junk. A washer from just a few years ago might have a life expectancy of 15 to 20 years. Our washer is 20 years old and I plan to have it repaired before I will buy a new one.
Remember the Maytag advertisement. What a big lie. Maytag is crap.
Sorry to rant. American consumers are getting screwed. Plus all of the old POS appliances end up in a junk yard or the land fill. So much for being environmentally friendly, ie, green. Green means less robust and heavy duty and more likely to fall apart.
You mean to tell me my newly purchased hair dryer gives information to the NSA!!??? WTH. Guys at NSA, get a live, cause mine will bore you to tears.
All you have to do is locate the wifi antenna in the device and cut it out.