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Hard-coded PIN vulnerability found in smart toilets
Phys.Org ^ | by Nancy Owano

Posted on 08/06/2013 2:22:56 PM PDT by Red Badger

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Is nothing safe anymore?.............
1 posted on 08/06/2013 2:22:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
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An app that directly competes with Facebook.


2 posted on 08/06/2013 2:24:46 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

FaceButt?............


3 posted on 08/06/2013 2:25:52 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Red Badger

I’ve heard of sitting on pins and needles butt this is ridiculous.


4 posted on 08/06/2013 2:26:00 PM PDT by techcor (leas)
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To: Red Badger

Why do we need smart potties?

Imagine in a power outage. Even the potty doesn’t work. Insanity.


5 posted on 08/06/2013 2:26:48 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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Why would anybody want a toilet they can flush with their smartphone in the first place?.......


6 posted on 08/06/2013 2:27:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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I WANT one of these smart toilets. I do.

I’ll just press a button on my phone app and BINGO!

All Wiped Up.


7 posted on 08/06/2013 2:27:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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offers a bowel-movement tracker for those concerned

The NSA is all over this...

8 posted on 08/06/2013 2:27:36 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Red Badger

This begs the question of why it is important to have a smart phone-controlled pooper.


9 posted on 08/06/2013 2:27:52 PM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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Why do we need smart potties?

For dumb sh!ts.......

10 posted on 08/06/2013 2:28:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Red Badger

wait... what?


11 posted on 08/06/2013 2:28:06 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Slings and Arrows

Smart toilets take Butt-Dialing to a whole new level - ping.


12 posted on 08/06/2013 2:29:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Everybody be careful, I have one of these and had some issues. I was sitting on the toilet doing my business when I decided to activate the toilet app with my cell phone. I had toilet paper in one hand and my phone in the other. I went to put my password (My password is poopoo, how clever is that?) in my cell phone but wait a minute, this hand has the toilet paper. This could only mean one thing, the cell phone is in my ass. Yes, some ass has my cell phone. I put the phone in a zip lock bag and took it to the Apple store and told them, “I don’t know what happened, it just stopped working”. If you can believe it, I now have to operate the toilet manually until I get my phone back, How stupid is that, what am I a cave man or something?


13 posted on 08/06/2013 2:29:53 PM PDT by 12chachacha (Sucker??)
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They are loaded with features such as automated lids that open and close,

Time for Hollywood to remake No Time for Sergeants.

The line offers a bowel-movement tracker for those concerned with monitoring their health.

Great, now my doctor and the IRS will think I go to the bathroom every 30 seconds because the neighbor kid hacked my toilet.

14 posted on 08/06/2013 2:34:06 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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What is it with the Japanese and toilets?


15 posted on 08/06/2013 2:37:54 PM PDT by Cymbaline ("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
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According to a warning by the information security firm Trustwave, a Satis-brand toilet by the Japan-based company Lixil can be controlled remotely by an Android app. According to Daniel Crowley a managing consultant with information security firm Trustwave SpiderLabs, the vulnerability could allow a prankster to outsmart the toilets.
So, I go to the bathroom in the airport. What is the story on the sinks in airport bathrooms, that they will not give us a twist-it-on twist-it-off, human-style faucet? Is that too risky for the general population? Too dangerous? We gotta install the one-handed, spring-loaded, pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucet. You know, those ones you gotta go: "Hey I got a little water there" "Hey I got a couple of drops."

What is it they think we would do with a faucet? Turn them all on full, run out into the parking lot laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?
"Come on, the water's on, let's go! I turned it on full blast!"
"You idiot! We're businessmen - we're gonna miss our plane."
"Who cares? Water!"
That's how they think we're gonna act.

-- Jerry Seinfeld, I'm Telling You For The Last Time


16 posted on 08/06/2013 2:39:03 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("Thus, my opponent's argument falls.")
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To: Cymbaline

THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT..


17 posted on 08/06/2013 2:40:57 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Red Badger

I’m surprised that it doesn’t intentionally let you sync up with your phone via bluetooth as a sanitary measure. People could request features with their phones rather than touch a common panel on the wall. It would have to figure out a way to make sure you sync up with the right phone instead of the one held by the person in a nearby stall.

The possibilities are endless. Yelp could confirm that you really did eat at the restaurant on which you just passed commentary. Walgreens could determine if you are a good candidate for stool softener coupons. ...


18 posted on 08/06/2013 2:41:51 PM PDT by posterchild
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A toilet with video uplink yo YouTube..........


19 posted on 08/06/2013 2:50:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Unless there is a camera somewhere in there or you need to pay to flush (and ostensibly have stored your credit card information in your toilet) at home...what would a criminal possibly gain by hacking your toilet, other than a harmless prank?


20 posted on 08/06/2013 2:59:20 PM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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