rbanffy

> I liked it for political races as an alternative to polls.

With enough funds, smaller political races can be gamed.

Yes. Adopting an industrial look with conduits is the way to go.

If what they rent is not freezers, but refrigeration, then they have a chance of having some sort of compensation for the loss of service, unless managing the fridges and their network is the market's responsibility.

The manufacturer/operator could, at least, not come with the omnipresent admin/admin credentials combo.

The C64 number looks fishy - the machine is slow compared to all others, but not THAT slow.

At the very least the system should pull configuration info from a trusted source at predefined times instead of being available for it to be pushed at any time.

Internet connected self driving cars are a huge military asset if controlled remotely by a hostile power.

And a couple weeks earlier to a couple dispensaries in US military bases.

At that point it should be firing alarms on every grocery chain everywhere. While you may not be in a US military base (they are impopular with a lot of people) the fact is that someone figured out how to do it and others will figure it our too.

In a word, poorly.

Setting up and changing parameters would involve, at the very least, a technician walking a store employee through the process. Best case scenario the technician would dial in using a modem.

Local network, VPNs, bastion hosts, and so on. It really isn’t that hard.

> And they don't know anything about cybersecurity

And this is the key fact. It’s no longer acceptable to sell food and not know anything about cybersecurity the same way it hasn’t been legal to drive a truck without a license in decades (because a lot of people died). There was ample warning since the incident at a couple US military bases earlier this year. Market owners need to face it.

Last time I cabled my house I laid out two cables between the switch and every spot, precisely for this reason. I think now I’d lay fiber as well, for future use.

You’d need proper hardware support and I’m not sure a vanilla Linux kernel can do that, but WebOS has its own Linux kernel and LG MUST publish the source (we all love the GPL, don’t we?)

If you are not sure what to look for, an LLM might help you set everything up including alarms when something atypical happens between the TV and its content sources.

Then you connect it to an Apple TV, or a game console, or a computer.