While the NSA scares you.. this is what scares me
dishwashers? your remote controls?. your cable box?... your coffee maker?.. we have all gone over the edge, and become part of a very scary future..
My hope is someone will tell me this is a Onion article.. that somehow got posted into the news by accident
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/9-household-items-could-spying-100006425.html
just one little excerpt from the article:
1. Your Television
Ever wonder how your TV remembers what shows you’ve watched, which ones you plan to watch, and how long you watched last episode of “Homeland” before falling into nightmare-ridden sleep?
It does it all by connecting to the Internet. Therein lies its weakness. Computer Security firm ReVuln proved last year that it could hack Samsung’s newest televisions, accessing users’ settings, installing malware on the TVs and any connected devices, and harvesting all the personal data stored on the machine. They could even switch on the camera embedded in the TV and watch viewers watching the set.
Samsung says it patched the security flaw. That said, who’s to say that Samsung is the only brand to have experienced a security issue?
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They leave the doors unlocked, you crank up the radio, turn on wipers, turn signal, heater all way, etc?
Imagine the good fun a hacker could have with a fully automated house 
Learn enough to be sure within yourself, and then set about withdrawing from it. (Monkey-wrenching's always good if you're in position do some)
Peace and good luck to us all. 
with my Melita filter..and unplugging the Bunn 
.. your dishwasher.. I can't wait till my husband gets home to read this.. because we thought people were you know a little off the deep end when they would talk about TV's and cables channels watching you.. he is going to be just like me I think.. going what the heck
Good grief I wonder what the microwave does.. tape us as we run out of the shower and through the kitchen..
I am going to be tempted to wave at all my appliances from now on
Garbage cans too..I need an aspirinI know, it sounds insane, but it is true. However when Londoners found out that while they were leaning against a garbage can talking on their phones, an 'orb' in the garbage can was watching and listening, there was enough outrage to get them banned.
The City of London is putting a stop to a troop of trash cans monitoring the smartphones of passers by. I admit, that is a sentence I never thought I would write. Quartz was first to report on this interesting feature of the latest refuse cans. The trash cans in question were installed in the run up to the Olympics and were installed at no cost to the tax payer instead funded by a screen which could display advertising. We have all grown pretty used to being constantly bombarded with advertising, so what is the big deal? Interestingly, a number of these trash cans recently had tracking ‘orbs’ (why on earth it is called an orb other than to sound awesome) which pick up broadcasts from your smartphone as you walk past.
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As we overlay our movements in the digital and physical world more and more such scenarios will become far more intrusive and far more common. You may want to ask yourself what is spying on you already, what might in the future, what information you are sharing and whether you are OK with this trade off of convenience and privacy.
'Every step you take,
Every move you make
I'll be watching you
Oh can't you see
You belong to me'
This should be the anthem of the Surveillance State!
that I'd rather watch, than the crap they're showing. Quite often, the movies I've referenced will show up a few days to a week later. I guess I should be relieved that Comcast is listening to me, but it's happened often enough that it's getting creepy. 
