[ih] Internet milestone - The Refrigerator Strikes Back (Jack Haverty)

[Ian Peter]

But wasn't the first example of this the Carnegie-Mellon Coke machine in 
1982?

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/internet-coke-machine



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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:30:39 -0800
From: Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org>
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This has just got to be a milestone for Internet historians:

http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/hackers-use-connected-home-appliances-to-launch-global-cyberattack_905067.html

When I saw this report, the final scene of the recent Hobbit movie flashed
into my brain -- where the hero (Bilbo) laments "What have we done!!!?"

Excuse me, I have to go configure my router so that my refrigerator can't
talk to the outside world.  I'm assuming of course that my router is still
actually doing what I tell it to do.

/Jack Haverty
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