Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
AJL <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:09:52 -0700
| Newsgroups | alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.os.linux.advocacy |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 6/30/2021 8:13 AM, Mayayana wrote: > When your "smart" thermostat is hacked to freeze your pipes (not to > mention the extensive spying Google does on their thermostats) you > can blame it on a software bug, or a missed update, or faulty > configuration, or whatever. Or the power company? My electric company gives away free smart thermostats. We are now having a severe heat wave. The electric company remotely raised the temperature on everybody's thermostat a few degrees to lessen the strain on the power grid.