Here's a great story about cybersecurity company Fortinet Inc.:
A widely reported story that 3 million electric toothbrushes were hacked with malware to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is likely a hypothetical scenario instead of an actual attack.
....Fortinet, who was attributed as the source of the article, has not published any information about this attack and has not responded to repeated requests for comment from BleepingComputer since the "toothbrush botnet" story went viral yesterday.
Respond? Why would they want to pour cold water on a great story like that?
Fortinet's stock closed up three points the day after the toothbrush story went viral. It's brilliant PR.
When Fortinet finally responded, they said that "due to translations" the original interviewer mistakenly thought a hypothetical scenario had actually happened. Maybe so! But then again, maybe not.
The strip mall in Santa Ana is no more attractive this week than it was in any previous week you showed it.
Just think of the fortunes that could have been made and lost if Orson Welles had the Internet in 1938.
Call me a Luddite if you will, but I'm damned if I will EVER have a friggin' toothbrush that transmits private information about what we do together in the bathroom.
It's all a liberal plot. Why do we even have electric toothbrushes? If the old manual-powered toothbrush was good enough for George Washington, it should be good enough for us. Now they got toothbrushes using Bluetooth! If they called it Whitetooth, I might think about it, but I'm not putting anything Bluetooth in my mouth.
This whole thing smells like a plot to steal the election from Donald Trump, if you ask me. Just look at the name of that company. Fortinet? That's an anagram of Fortnite, amirite? Which is a homophone of "Fortnight," the new single from Mrs.-to-be Travis Kelce, who'll be showing off her pearly whites at the Super Bowl on Sunday when her boy catches a touchdown pass and runs all the way to Pennsylvania Avenue for a high-five from Brandon You-Know-Who. That's the kind of crooked campaign this is going to be. The whole thing makes me so mad I might just have to round up 3 million of my manual toothbrush-using buddies and march down to break up the party and plant our own electric-powered, Bluetooth-enabled Confederate flag in the Oval Office ourselves.
dear god, it's all so obvious! Why does everyone on tv have these weird white teeth? There are no teeth like that! They're fake news teeth! Piranhas of the mind!
LMFAO. Made my day.
I can see you want to give this story the brush off, but it really takes an X-ray of the moral decay that afflicts our culture.
Well said!
Fascinating to see the executive in you come back out to play a little.
The Internet of Things is . . .! --oh, Futurama already did this.
i see some scotus fuckery on the horizon
the conservatives will allow trump on the ballot on the pretense that the remedy is in the hands of congress who can allow him to take office with a 2/3 majority vote
which of course won't happen
so if he wins, he's prevented from holding office, which means his VP would take the position
trump of course will select his vp based on the promise that he will be pardoned for all federal crimes
so in the end, trump walks free while scotus hands the r's another presidential win
I thought of this. He chooses Kellyanne as his VP. Then when she assumes office, she appoints Don Jr. as her VP. Then she resigns and Don Jr. takes over. Beauty!
Looks like my next job is to curate all the WiFi devices in our house and check if my toothbrush shows up. 😋
We've have LED outdoor bulbs for our garage carriage lights and entry lights for a few years - makes it a lot easier than swapping bulbs for holiday displays,.
They are on our WiFi network and, of course, there's a cell phone app for control We can set white or adjustable color mode. In white mode we can set color temperature and lumen level.
)This past October, preparing for Halloween, I couldn't get the lights out of white mode. Fortunately the manufacturers web site had instructions for hard reboot to get back to factory default (turn the light on and off rapidly 3 times). Then the phone app told me the firmware on the light bulbs needed to be upgraded.
When I graduated from college in 1974 as an EE major, I have to admit I didn't envision THAT scenario jumping out of the bushes at me...
You can’t be too careful. Dick Cheney had the WiFi disabled on his defibrillating pacemaker because he was afraid Al Qaeda might hack it.
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