Man uses networked 'crazy' toaster to hack PC

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Man uses networked 'crazy' toaster to hack PC

Unread post by gelfling » Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:57 am

/tinfoilhat

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/18 ... ster_hack/


In the future, people should purchase home appliances only from trusted outlets, he [Dror Shalev] advised. "If an appliance or home device comes as a gift, accept it only if it is from someone you trust," Shalev noted, we suspect shortly before retiring to his private bunker somewhere on the outskirts of the Negev desert.
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Unread post by Istik » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:36 am

Id only want a networked toaster if It could spread the Butter and Jam, then bring it in for me.
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Unread post by gelfling » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:31 am

Now that's a cracking idea :D
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