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I suppose it was only a matter of time.

I was just at a local Home Depot and wanted to tap a wi-fi signal (with my phone).
Found one... an LG refrigerator in the appliance department popped up. I kid you not.

Now I'm left wondering if a head of lettuce is looking at my bank records.
 
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... and now it occurs to me (hours later) that if that refrigerator was looking at porn, it might somehow be traced back to me... and then I'd have to resign from something.

LG... life is NOT good. She was a cold mistress... very cold. :highly_amused:
 
Hmm, wonder what porn would be to a refrigerator? Hot, wet fruit sliced open ?

I was in a doctor's office today, waiting on a friend. Must've been two dozen WiFi signals listed, mostly printers and thermostats.
 
And all will be greedy to interact with your hand-held comm device. So they can 'share' the data on it to the rest of the world.

That fridge will eventually be 'installed' someplace, be 'wired' and will remember all the signal-hunting MAC addresses that passed it in the store. P'raps it will just want to say: "HI!" or maybe it will reconnect and pass info on to its mothership.

P.K. Dick was a seer... or a well disguised Terminator.
 
I usually shut the wifi off on my phone when I am out and about, I let it connect at home and that is about it.
 
:thumbsup: Walt.

But even in "airplane mode" or with WiFi off, a 'smartphone' itself still keeps track of its own whereabouts. That would mean Mitsy could find out when I went to the gunshop again... no es bueno! :greedy_dollars:
 
I was looking at the Google records of my whereabouts. It's amazing. EVERYWHERE I've been is on a map! I can go back over a year and re-visit all those locations!!! I'm not sure people know that this is easy info to look up.

As for connecting away from home (to usually non-secure sites), I don't generally do that... but this month I was running out of data so I thought I'd save some.

As for the frig... that's a two-way street. I might stalk the cold mistress. :cool:
 
May have to forget to take your phone with you. Time to buy an old style dumb flip phone for shopping trips.

But then what do you do when you need to look something up in the store on Google?

David
 
DavidApp said:
Time to buy an old style dumb flip phone for shopping trips.
But then what do you do when you need to look something up in the store on Google?
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Exactly! Like "how do I get a refrigerator to leave me alone?" :glee:
 
George Jetson might have had it right.
"Mark- is that you again opening the refrigerator?"
 
Gee... forgot about that, Elliot. The beast could be monitoring my every theft (of food)!
 
Although it all feels a bit creepy, it doesn't bother me.
 
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I can just see it, "oh yea baby, open that lower door just a bit more. What's that, oooh, nothing in the produce drawer"....
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Well, there are juices in ours... and, um, melons.
 
"Is that a banana in your produce drawer, or are you happy to see me?"

Possibilities here are endless... :devilgrin:
 
LOL Fruit is like that.
 
I was working @ a TVA plant commishing a piece of equipment and needed a drawing
no internet power company not open to contractors no big deal went to lunch at a little cafe up the road
in talking with my coworker we want to double check a IO point so tried to get a wi if conection. Imagine our surprise when the connection we got was the police department across the street completely open could acces every thing
got the the heck off and walked over and talked to the dispatcher.
geeez
 
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the police department across the street completely open could acces every thing
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YIKES! Of all the places you would expect to be secured...

When I set up any clients' LAN and access, the router the IP provides gets turned into a bridge, WiFi broadcast turned off. Next machine in line is a firewall with some fairly strict rules. The WiFi access is from a router (I prefer Buffalo routers) inside the LAN with the broadcast name changed to something like an ancient Greek or Egyptian one, then "hidden". The PIN codes are a string of nonsensical alpha-numeric characters. So far (many years), no hacks. <knock wood>
 
"When I set up any clients' LAN and access, the router the IP provides gets turned into a bridge, WiFi broadcast turned off. Next machine in line is a firewall with some fairly strict rules. The WiFi access is from a router (I prefer Buffalo routers) inside the LAN with the broadcast name changed to something like an ancient Greek or Egyptian one, then "hidden". The PIN codes are a string of nonsensical alpha-numeric characters. So far (many years), no hacks. <knock wood>"

Now *that* is a plan!

Want to bet that most small and medium size police and fire departments have bare-bones IT setups, and most likely not even a part-time IT support person. In a town near me, the setup was by a high school student, using hardware provided by an anti-terrorism grant.

What I learned over the years: organizations are often willing to use (or borrow) dollars to buy stuff, but not to install, maintain, or train people to use it.

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