Re: Security News This Week: Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
nospam <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:50:05 -0400
| 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 |
| Message-ID | <300620211250055876%[email protected]> |
In article <[email protected]>, AJL <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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. > > > that was something you opted into in exchange for a free thermostat. > > I never opted in to it. more accurately, you were automatically opted into it as part of the 'free' deal, which is explained in the fine print which nobody reads. you probably can opt-out, but i don't know if that affects it being free. different companies have different deals. > I do have a smart thermostat that came with my > AC but I have never hooked it to the WiFi. Call it paranoia? maybe. it's also easy to firewall it if it does something undesirable.