Is your refrigerator a national security risk?

[FakeNews]

WASHINGTON (CBS4) – The federal government is worried some refrigerators and coffee pots could pose a national security risk, and it’s taking action.

Colorado’s U.S. Senator Cory Gardner among a bi-partisan group of senators who are sponsoring legislation to secure the so-called Internet of Things – everyday devices that are embedded with computer chips and sensors.

Gardner says those devices can be used as weapons of mass disruption.

“The federal government orders billions of dollars worth of Internet of Things devices each and every year,” says Gardner. “These are things that can be hacked into. You can try to control systems, instruments with them. You can certainly read what people are doing and maybe even eavesdrop on a conversation people are having.”

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/09/12/internet-of-things-cybersecurity/

 

[Boxlicker101]

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/09/12/internet-of-things-cybersecurity/

Somehow, this reminds me of Y2K.

 

[ryan8558]

Well, if they want to stock up on items that can't be hacked, I have a 20 year old refrigerator I can sell them.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I don't know why anyone would want all that electronical nonsense in the first place. Just more crap to break.

 

[cfuhrer]

Well, if they want to stock up on items that can't be hacked, I have a 20 year old refrigerator I can sell them.

I was just thinking along those same lines.
"So why doesn't the government buy second hand,refurbished, etc?"

 

[cfuhrer]

I don't know why anyone would want all that electronical nonsense in the first place.

Quoted for truth!

 

[Hypoxia]

In the brilliant future, everything will be chipped and tracked.

Any delusions of privacy you held are laughable.

Your possessions will betray you.

They're all traitors.

 

[cfuhrer]

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