{"id":1951,"date":"2015-01-14T12:44:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T20:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:46:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:46:35","slug":"told-part-seven-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/told-part-seven-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"I Told You So&#8230;Part Seven Or Eight&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/told-part-seven-eight\/\" data-text=\"I Told You So&#038;%238230;Part Seven Or Eight&#038;%238230;\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;or I&#8217;ve lost count. \u00a0Sure, I&#8217;ve blathered on about the potential <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4bZJI-eG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downsides of Artificial Intelligence<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also expressed my <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skepticism of the coming Internet of Things.<\/a> \u00a0Certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4bZJI-8t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I may be paranoid<\/a>, but even a blind squirrel will eventually find a nut. \u00a0No, I have not been found by a blind squirrel. \u00a0What I mean is that other less paranoid and more credible people are expressing some of the same misgivings, with actual evidence to back up their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>It is posited that the lax security built into Comsumer devices, specifically home wireless routers, poses a real hazard to individuals and society in general. \u00a0And why is the security so lax in these devices? \u00a0Because we as consumers <em>demand<\/em> it. \u00a0We demand easy setup and our attention spans are too short to read more than a 3 step setup process. \u00a0So even as we are promised smarter and smarter home appliances and systems, the door is practically wide open for mischief or outright crime. \u00a0So when you wake up one morning and your toaster is holding a gun to your head, don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &#8230;or I&#8217;ve lost count. \u00a0Sure, I&#8217;ve blathered on about the potential downsides of Artificial Intelligence. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also expressed my skepticism of the coming Internet of Things. \u00a0Certainly I may be paranoid, but even a blind squirrel will eventually find a nut. \u00a0No, I have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}