[HN Gopher] Hacking Your Dishwasher
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       Hacking Your Dishwasher
        
       Author : georgyo
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-10-09 09:55 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | netsharc wrote:
       | Using nmap against your dishwasher is a lot less exciting than
       | Trinity using nmap against The Matrix...
        
       | AtlasBarfed wrote:
       | IMO IoT won't "take off" without open source and open access.
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       | NOBODY trusts IoT vendors to support software on the devices. IoT
       | is like "those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat
       | it" on a 10 year cycle. Someone tries to enter the space with a
       | range of products. They get apathetic after five years. The
       | devices and software are cast off. Consumers are pissed off.
       | Consumers refuse to buy "smart" devices.
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       | The unsolved question of IoT is: how to keep a smart device
       | working correctly for decades? We can't get google to promise
       | updates of ITS OWN PHONES for ITS OWN OPERATING SYSTEM for longer
       | than three years.
       | 
       | I remember when the Essential phone launched, to get people to
       | try to jump ship to a new company, they promised an "escrowed"
       | budget for update maintenance. It might have been five years.
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       | I think you'd need this, except the escrow is for 30 years at a
       | minimum. I think we'd need regulations.
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       | This would likely drive huge adoption of open source and
       | standards. Because those are a lot easier to fund / support / be
       | compatible with that the constantly churning internal dev teams.
        
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