Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw (Hack with any Android phone).

BBC News ^ | August 5, 2013 | Zoe Kleinman

[Pilsner]

A luxury toilet controlled by a smartphone app is vulnerable to attack, according to security experts... the Pin code for every model is hardwired to be four zeros (0000), meaning that it cannot be reset... An attacker could ... cause the unit to unexpectedly open/close the lid, activate bidet or air-dry functions, causing discomfort or distress to [the] user."

[Pilsner]

If this becomes a big problem I plan for Pilsner Consulting Ltd. to begin offering advice to those with more money than sense on how to make their toilets immune from both hacking, and remote monitoring by the NSA.

[Gay State Conservative]

Thirty years ago,in East Africa,I came upon a toilet that looked very much like this.Degrading,difficult,embarrassing...but functional.No smartphone required.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

The toilet uses bluetooth to receive instructions via the app

Either I'm now officially "old" and behind the times technologically because I don't see any remote need or use for this, or some people have absolutely no idea how to spend their money productively.

[nascarnation]

Look at the bright side.
More of Baraq’s “high tech” jobs....

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

*sigh* First world problems...

[ErnBatavia]

Looks like a place where Bill Clinton might go to toss off...

[knarf]

(runs in .. hurredly drops trou ... REALLY gott'a GO ... )

unnggghhh ... ahhhh .... WHAT TH" ???? !!!

[9YearLurker]

Bwahaha.

I wonder if any of the Patriots would dare, and have the know-how, to punk Tom Brady’s toilet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_4H-GmhTH0

[Lazamataz]

That's LUXURY compared to some Russian toilets I saw when over there....

[basil]

I’m with you!

Sometimes when I read stuff like this, my head swims........

[Gay State Conservative]

That's LUXURY compared to some Russian toilets I saw when over there....

A few years back my sister and her 20 year old daughter (who has a mild form of autism) went to Japan.When they came back my niece,who like many with autism can become fascinated by the strangest things (think "Rain Man"),came home with photo after photo of the toilet that was in their room.It was really fancy...appearing to be almost nuclear powered.It had lights and buttons...strange,to say the least.

[alancarp]

NOW we know what the Al Qaeda threat is all about. Totally explains the embassy closures.

[molson209]

Japan the Land of Amazing Toilets

[bigbob]

If I knew someone who had one, I would SO be doing this!

Meanwhile, a low-maintenance alternative:

[NonValueAdded]

And guys, whatever you do, don't press the red button!

[blueunicorn6]

“An attacker could”
What kind of sadistic SOB would turn on the bidet when you weren’t expecting it? Communists.

[IronJack]

That describes most of the known world, with the possible exception of Antarctica, where the ambient temperature might discourage even a deviant of Clinton’s magnitude.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Not the wed one! Don't EVER push the wed one!"

[BenLurkin]

“Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would’ve immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom.”

[RJS1950]

While I normally despise and wish bodily harm on hackers; this is hacking that I can appreciate. This is funnier than hell. Technology can be stretched beyond the bounds of good sense and this is proof of it.