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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

iot was a great idea, good job, guys! πŸ‘

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago

This is your daily reminder that the "S" in "IOT" stands for "Security."

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why is everything internet connected? Oh yea, I want my stove top to beinternet connected - statements I wish I could say have never been uttered.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

BTW, yea, we got a new stove top it had a WiFi sticker on it agony-consuming WHY. It came with a paper where they had printed licenses, I didn't look at it too much, but I saw "openbsd", WHY IS MY STOVETOP RUNNING OPENBSD SOFTWARE agony-immense

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

At least it isn’t running windows. πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Probably ships with OpenSSL and/or OpenSSH. Buying a cheap CH341A programmer off of Aliexpress is a lot of fun because you can actually dump the firmware from like 95% of these things with a $5 tool and poke around/reverse engineer them and do some fun things with that knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If you learn how to set auto start and stop timers, it defeats the convenience of an app. Shit really isn't that hard.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

The counter revolution will probably be accompanied by the government killing every spouse or parent of someone too busy to cook on a thursday by blowing them up right after popping in pizza pockets.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The bazinga shit is just about mandatory whether people want it or not. The real inevitabilism is a matter of market manipulation by the ruling class, eliminating choices that don't contribute to the real profit motive: data gathering and aggregation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But they're gathering the data to sell to use on the other guy's Bazinga thing, now advertising has mostly collapsed. It's like a city amateur theatre community, no one actually see the shows that aren't in them, they're just passing the same sad $20 note around in a circle. A fully closed bazinga loop that produces nothing, not even useless stuff.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

A fully closed bazinga loop that produces nothing, not even useless stuff.

yeah, that's the american economy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

and a convenient form of control

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plot twist, the attackers are Kias

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Classic Kia.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A couple years back there was a thing where you could hotwire some Kia models just by jamming a usb plug into a thing on the steering column. Glad to see the brand identity still going strong.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that's how my car got stolen!

when you take the ignition protector off, there's a small square piece of metal that you can put a USB plug onto, or just use a set of pliers or something. then, simply press in and turn like an actual key, and presto, you now own a car.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It didn't necessarily have to be a USB plug, that was just a convenient device because it was the right shape and size. A large flat screwdriver would work just as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it was just Kia cheaping out by not having an immobilizer. They saved at the very most $100 a car(probably more like $40) by skipping a basic security feature invented in 1985.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Still very much an ongoing thing that they will face basically no repercussions for

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

me, sweating in my hyundai phoenix-sweat

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Back in the day there was a key that you turn and starts your car. Easy to steal. So manufacturers created keys with 4 rows of pins in the ignition. Hard to steal if you don't know what you're doing.

Then they moved to inductive transponder keys. Also not really an issue, but not as reliable as the older style keys.

Then some sick fucks said "why not make the transponder on the FUCKING KEY FOB" instead of the car itself which has a giant lead acid battery with millions of amp hours and here we are i-love-not-thinking

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Techbros sometimes want to change things because they convince themselves that all changes are smart and cool and "disruptive" without knowing why things were the way they were in the first place. bazinga

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

BILLIONS MUST BE DISRUPTED

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Oh great, this totally won't get somebody hurt or killed. Good job, guys!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

https://archive.ph/i3X1L

for anyone who doesn't want to solve the captcha, that's an archive of https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track

...which contains a summary of what is in the researchers' post about it here: https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Alternative title: Get free remote start on your KIA with this one simple trick!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Free remote start on your free kia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

We call them The Kia Boys around here. I have a buddy that has been a victim twice.