Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too many times

Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by xaedes on Friday September 10, 2021 @06:57AM (#28479833)

In Battlestar Galactica humanity's last defense was this big "dumb" battlestar spaceship with sparsly connected systems.

Sometimes it feels like the internet (of things) is the breeding ground of the Cylons in our world.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by unethical_ban on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:21AM (#28482802)

I resent that consumer IoT is almost always required to connect to a cloud service.

I love the idea of an IoT house - smart lamps, smart locks, cameras, climate conrtol, etc. I only want them connected to my LAN. If I want to access any of their controls remotely, I will set up a VPN or otherwise they should provide a jump service locally, not require cloud connectivity.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by increscent on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:39AM (#28483062)

Check out this project!

https://trmm.net/Ikea/

Apparently, the firmware on some IKEA smart home devices can be easily flashed.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by tov247 on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:30AM (#28480577)

This is the approach I have to computers controlling things in my home, it's fine if they are computers, but I don't want them connected.

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Re:Our fridge just emailed us to say we opened its door too ... by bserge on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:48AM (#28481506)

But the Cylons are human... oh wait

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