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Smart home mfs when hackers get control of their appliances and demand crypto in order to turn the taps back on:
as the prophecy foretold
For real. You'd have to pay me $1800 to let some smart faucet into my kitchen.
Imagine getting you bank creds stolen via MITM thru your kitchen faucet.
OK, $1800 cash then.
Inshallah this guy gets his identity stolen via that faucet
This is one of my favorite tweets of all time.
Even better is to demand crypto to turn the taps off.
Moen makes a device that is internet powered.
It ties in to your incoming 3/4"-1" distribution line where it enters the house.. puts usage stats on a nice pretty dashboart, and also contains a shut off to kill the house feed on the off chance you are not home and spring a leak.
IIRC there are active security exploits for it if one were so inclined.
Every day, further from the light. Or whatever.
As an engineer who works with lots of data, I have so much disdain for “dashboards.” Execs spent the last 10-15 years demanding pretty pictures and numbers on a single screen, of which they comprehend very little. Now they wanna shove all that data into an AI so they don’t even have to pretend to look at it. God forbid they ask their employees in the field for their analysis.
I feel most dashboards can be replaced by a single message to the project manager: “yo is shit fucked today?” “nah” “ok cool”
just use a set of keys. You can jangle them in front of the execs if things are good, if they aren't then they don't get to coo and paw at the keys