The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true.

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• rynzcycle@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tomorrow: 3 Million hacked smart fridges were used to spread misinformation that the 3 million toothbrush story wasn't true.

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  • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Buzzfeed: 10 tweets proving your new pizza oven hates The Pentagon

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  • jetsetdorito@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    silicon valley irl

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• JoMomma@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was a psi-op to distract you from the horrible reality of the Furby Bot-net that will be the end of life as we know it

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  • lemmydripzdotz123@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I suspect you would enjoy the story of Furbeowulf.

    www.trygve.com/furbeowulf.html

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    • JoMomma@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was there, at the beginning, and I am living to see the end

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “secure connection failed” accessing that link

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget about botnet of vibrators and chastity cages!

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  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

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• ThetaDev@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First thing I was asking is the model of toothbrush that supposedly got hacked. AFAIK there are no mainstream electric toothbrushes with onboard WiFi. Both OralB and Philips use Bluetooth for their smart functionalities.

  If the story was about smart ovens or washing machines I would have believed it.

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  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ring ring “Hello?”

    “Is your refrigerator running?”

    “Yes.”

    “Dear God! Unplug it! Unplug it now before Skynet takes over!”

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• Turun@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They say the story isn’t true, but the source they cite in the very next sentence says:

  Das Beispiel, das wie ein Hollywood-Szenario daherkommt, hat sich wirklich so zugetragen. Es zeigt, wie vielseitig digitale Angriffe geworden sind.

  (This example, which sounds like a Hollywood plot, really happened. It shows how multidimensional (my mind blanks on a better translation right now) cyber attacks have become)

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  • tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the translation.

    Multivector? Multifaceted? Multimodal?

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    • StitchIsABitch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More like ‘diverse’ or ‘versatile’. Although multifaceted would be the literal translation so I guess it works.

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• Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Best news is news you make up! NO ONE ELSE IS COVERING IT

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• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I started to become somewhat skeptical after thinking about it for a second. Well, too bad it was fake. Or good, actually.

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• Kazumara@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean we haven’t seen any proof, but Stefan Züger of Fortinet told that story as a supposedly true event to Journalists of CH-Media. The very article Kevin Beaumont posts says that the scenario is a real event.

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• alicehughes@thebrainbin.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think its true.I have received an email on Hotmail ログイン and I guess its true.

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