Fwd: The Smart Home Battle Front And Can Our ISP Interfere With Our Heat?

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: José María Mateos <chema () rinzewind org>
Date: Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:04 AM
Subject: The Smart Home Battle Front And Can Our ISP Interfere With Our
Heat?
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>


(For IP, if you want).

This is getting funny, for certain definitions of "funny":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/12/29/the-smart-home-battle-front-and-can-our-isp-interfere-with-our-heat/#57defb19232b

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The fragility of “smart homes” was brought to the forefront this week as
a letter made the rounds allegedly sent by an ISP to its customers
noting that those accused of repeated online copyright infringement
activity could have their internet access suspended. Such a letter is
hardly remarkable in today’s copyright aware environment, but what made
this one stand out is the ISP’s notice that suspension of a user’s
internet connection “may affect other services which you may have
connected to your internet service, such as the ability to control your
thermostat remotely or video monitoring services.” Does this really mean
our ISP has the ability to cut off our heat in the middle of the winter?
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"My pipes burst because I downloaded Game of Thrones".

Cheers,

JMM.



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