Smart Home - Lacking standards and lock-in

[David Gerard]

On 18 December 2014 at 09:11, Hugo Roy <hugo at fsfe.org> wrote:
> ↪ 2014-12-18 Thu 00:19, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

>> The future is, quite literally, your fridge being pwn3d by Russian
>> hacker gangs to send spam. This is a thing that is literally going to
>> happen.

> You mean, like this? http://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-use-a-refridgerator-to-attack-businesses-2014-1?IR=T
> Just saying, this is not the future, this is now.


Oh wow, I didn't know about that one. Thank you.


> Also, I think that the likeliness that the fridge is going to be
> misused by a hacker is not high. (Or did you mean something else,
> remember that a hacker is not synonymous with criminal, otherwise
> FSFE would be a criminal organisation defending our rights to
> hack!)


I think arguing the definition of "hack" is a ship that sailed decades
ago; attempts to do so are one group self-labeling as "hackers"
claiming that another group self-labelilng as "hackers" shouldn't use
the label, but approximately nobody else cares and this really doesn't
match observable usage of the word.


- d.