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Just about anything wireless is hackable today. Everything—from PCs to mobiles to tablets to home automation devices to pacemakers to insulin dispensers and even cars—are hackable.
And now “smart” toilets.
CNET reports, “[Smart] toilets can be controlled using an Android app, but the Bluetooth PIN is hard-coded to ‘0000.’ Just knowing that code number means the awesome power of the Satis (toilet) could fall into evil hands. All a hacker would have to do is download the My Satis app, get in range, pair it to the toilet using the code and flush away.”
Scary!
As we rely more and more on wireless communication, it is important to keep your wireless devices secure from hackers bent on flushing your data out. (That was bad.) Anyway…
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James Strudwick Executive Director at Starknet Foundation
13 March
Anoop Melethil Head of Marketing at Maveric Systems
12 March
Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA
Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 - www.transact365.io
10 March
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