no thank you vey much

**handrawn** · 04 March 2020, 01:08 PM

hard on the heels of yet another notification of how baby monitors are hacked, I read this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51709247

I wish I had kept that 1940/60 scifi I read as a kid, so much is comming true....

**gwpriester** · 04 March 2020, 01:50 PM

Having any "smart" device connected to your network is asking for trouble. Did you hear that ALEXA!

**Egg Bramhill** · 04 March 2020, 02:00 PM

Yes, best stick to knocking HD

**handrawn** · 04 March 2020, 02:10 PM

cctv and [legal] bear traps - they don't get near the door if i don't recognise 'em

[well... maybe a slight exaggeration...

]

**Acorn** · 04 March 2020, 02:16 PM

I am so looking forward to Amazon drone season when we are allowed to blow them out of the sky. Amazon's intention is to monitor the delivery address from the air (Note, this may not be an Amazon Customer; you kind Uncle might be gifting you something) and report open doors and windows and abnormal activity.

If it has this capability, the drone will be eyeballing you all.

Orwell's 1984 was oh so tame.

Acorn

**handrawn** · 04 March 2020, 02:24 PM

drones always remind me of Dune [the book] - my finger itch for a handy missile every time

**Acorn** · 04 March 2020, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by handrawn

drones always remind me of Dune [the book] - my finger itch for a handy missile every time

Funny, I think of Iain M Banks' The Culture, especially the Special Circumstances ones.

You've got to remember that Herbert's polities shunned thinking machines so the training robots had to be simple automata.

Acorn