>> entirely agree. and you can tell a lot about me by >> watching the temperature sensors at my house >> (http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/home_temp.html) > >Such as what?
Whether he's gone on vacation, probably--since he's at a .edu, there's a good chance he gets a week or two off at Christmas; if he goes away at that time, he'll probably turn down his thermostat before he goes, and it'll show up on the sensors. A water meter would be an even more reliable indicator. Burglars, obviously, prefer to break into empty houses; watching every house in town is too much work, but having a tool do it for you over the net would be easy. Hmm. I bet the current data-over-water-pipes meters are subject to tapping--since the pipes run into everybody's home, it'd be like a shared Ethernet. With the right cable (say, a single wire from the pipe to the serial port, maybe with an amplifier), and a bit of software, you could monitor your neighbors' water usage. The water companies probably didn't think to encrypt the data. Once again, trusting the topology is a Bad Thing. /=======================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Incentive Systems, Inc.| |http://www.incentivesystems.com|My opinions are my own.| |=======================================================| |A mime is a wonderful thing to waste. | \=======================================================/
