<div dir="ltr">Exactly right - this is the first (that I've heard about) instance of our household appliances being taken over by a malevolent force and used to attack others, all via the Internet. You kind of expect your personal computers to be recruited -- after all they sit there saying "Program me!!" all day. But refrigerators, TVs, et al were more loyal, until now. Where's an exorcist when you need one?<div>
<br></div><div>Actually, this is seriously a real problem....how do I get anti-virus software into my kitchen appliances?<br><div><br></div><div>BTW, there was a Coke machine attached to the ARPANET in the mid 70s, well before IP was deployed, or the 1982 CMU machine. IIRC it had a specific IMP/port address (on MIT-AI I believe) to which you could Telnet and get back the current temperature of the contents of the machine. No one likes warm soda....or a long fruitless walk to a too recently stocked machine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>/Jack</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Noel Chiappa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> > From: "Ian Peter" <<a href="mailto:ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>><br>
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> But wasn't the first example of this [CMU] Coke machine in 1982?<br>
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The Coke machine didn't, AFAIK, mount attacks on other ARPANet hosts (which<br>
was the point of Jack's message).<br>
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Noel<br>
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