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Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw
- mattwritescode 13y agoI will be awarding life points to the first person who hacks one of these today!
- tomorgan 13y agoThis is a toilet of a story! In order to effect the "hack" you'd need to be close enough to flush it by hand! Yikes, my toilet at home is susceptible to attack by the same method. I think if you have an hacker in your bathroom, you have bigger problems. Flip side: will this spurn a new army of "sanitary hackers" who break into unhygienic bathrooms and flush toilets that the owners have neglected to attend to? Brown-hat hackers?!
- triplepoint217 13y agoI think it is a slightly larger risk than that because a joker could plant say an arduino with a bluetooth shield, or an old throwaway android phone somewhere and script a program of actions, or maybe use a bluetooth antena (do those exist?) Also, is this a specifically short range bluetooth? Because my old junky bluetooth headset still gets enough range to reach my phone in my room from the bathroom nearby. I agree with you that the short range makes the threat much smaller, but it doesn't completely eliminate it.
- dan1234 13y agoI can definitely connect to other bluetooth devices through walls, over 10 ft away.
- pessimizer 13y agoPreviously posted, 28 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146306
- cpursley 13y agoPeople have been shitting on toilets for years. Now that they're getting smarter, we should not be surprised that toilets are now fighting back.
- tiziano88 13y agojust put a stupid button to initiate Bluetooth pairing, like any other Bluetooth device on earth