Re: [funsec] Net-connected Barbie?
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:40:17PM -0500, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Harry Harrison wrote I always do what Teddy says back in 1965. Whoa. That hasn't crossed my mind in...well, okay, a lot of years. So now it seems we're going to live in the worlds imagined by Harrison, Dick, Orwell, Bradbury, Vonnegut, and others. Perhaps there should be a mandatory reading list of seminal dystopian, cautionary tales -- although those busily engaged in figuring out how they can without pausing to consider if they should would probably not pause to read them. ---rsk ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
[funsec] Net-connected Barbie?
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31502898 Oh, I can't see any possible problems with that. Let's see. Like Siri, et al, the computing power, and data storage, for parsing what the kid says is undoubtedly elsewhere. (Mattel? Apple? Microsoft? the NSA?) So, everything your kid says around the doll is going somewhere, and being stored. (Forever?) Everything you, or anybody else, says around the doll is being stored. Then what kind of algorithm is being used to feed jokes and games? There wouldn't be *any* possibility that someone could tweak the agenda here, is there? No possibility of propaganda aimed at the kids? And I'm *sure* that Mattel has thought long and hard about the security of all those transactions. They'd all be protected by bullet-proof crypto, authentication and security so that no attacker could hijack the stream. You know, no crooks trying to find out if the kid is home alone with only an inexperienced babysitter, no child pornographers teaching kids how to use Webcams, no pedophiles setting up meets with the kids ... == (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org We die only once, and for such a long time.- Moliere victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Re: [funsec] Net-connected Barbie?
Why did I immediately think of Chucky when I was reading this... and I am sure that propaganda (state or corporate sponsored) is top on the list of undocumented features... On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah rmsl...@shaw.ca wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31502898 Oh, I can't see any possible problems with that. Let's see. Like Siri, et al, the computing power, and data storage, for parsing what the kid says is undoubtedly elsewhere. (Mattel? Apple? Microsoft? the NSA?) So, everything your kid says around the doll is going somewhere, and being stored. (Forever?) Everything you, or anybody else, says around the doll is being stored. Then what kind of algorithm is being used to feed jokes and games? There wouldn't be *any* possibility that someone could tweak the agenda here, is there? No possibility of propaganda aimed at the kids? And I'm *sure* that Mattel has thought long and hard about the security of all those transactions. They'd all be protected by bullet-proof crypto, authentication and security so that no attacker could hijack the stream. You know, no crooks trying to find out if the kid is home alone with only an inexperienced babysitter, no child pornographers teaching kids how to use Webcams, no pedophiles setting up meets with the kids ... == (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org We die only once, and for such a long time.- Moliere victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Re: [funsec] Net-connected Barbie?
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:57:04 -0800, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah said: Then what kind of algorithm is being used to feed jokes and games? There wouldn't be *any* possibility that someone could tweak the agenda here, is there? No possibility of propaganda aimed at the kids? Harry Harrison wrote I always do what Teddy says back in 1965. pgpmWHmnu8PyR.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
