Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23575249

by dan1234 • 13 years ago

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I will be awarding life points to the first person who hacks one of these today!

tomorgan• 13 years ago

This 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• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

I can definitely connect to other bluetooth devices through walls, over 10 ft away.

pessimizer• 13 years ago

Previously posted, 28 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6146306

cpursley• 13 years ago

People 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• 13 years ago

just put a stupid button to initiate Bluetooth pairing, like any other Bluetooth device on earth

Luxury toilet users warned of hardware flaw

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