Spoiler Alert: Your TV Will Be Hacked 211
snydeq writes "With rising popularity of Internet-enabled TVs, the usual array of attacks and exploits will soon be coming to a screen near you. 'Will Internet TVs will be hacked as successfully as previous generations of digital devices? Of course they will. Nothing in a computer built into a TV makes it less attackable than a PC. ... Can we make Internet TVs more secure than regular computers? Yes. Will we? Probably not. We never do the right things proactively. Instead, we as a global society appear inclined to accept half-baked security solutions that are more like Band-Aids than real protection.'"
Heh (Score:5, Funny)
Barney (Score:3, Funny)
Never gonna give you up. (Score:5, Funny)
Bonus points for the first ones to rickroll on every channel at once.
And... go
I have a challenge to all hackers out there (Score:5, Funny)
The ultimate TV hack, one that will make you the most infamous hacker in the US. Make it so that during the last quarter of the superbowl, the entire country gets rickrolled and are unable to return to the game. If it's a close game, wait til the very end (last year doing it on Brady's last drive would be perfect).
Re:Can't hack what you don't have (Score:4, Funny)
I gotta ask, do you have the same beard as the guy in the article?
Re:Shopping channels (Score:5, Funny)
I'd care. Huge improvement. Have you seen the shit they throw out on Disney? You can at least expect a tolerable plot from Playboy.
Re:Dumb displays (Score:5, Funny)
I prefer my TV's to be dumb displays
... Like your women?
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Re:Think! (Score:4, Funny)
Oh hey, it's you:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/
Get off your high horse. There are plenty of good, informative shows for intelligent people to watch. And despite the popular meme, there actally are shows that are pretty well done. Not everything on TV is lowest-common-denominator crap.
Re:Shopping channels (Score:4, Funny)
FFS their Jan/Feb 2012 issue was of Lindsey Lohan, photoshopped to hell and back.
And I thought photoshopping was used to to improve pictures...
Re:Heh (Score:5, Funny)