I know right. Once you get into my thermostat, there are countless things a person can do. My viewpoint on the matter is twofold: 1) If a person wants to go to all that trouble to take over the connected things in my house, I suppose I'm just a vulnerable SOB to that sort of attack (I do, however, have confidence in my general infosec protocol). 2) If a thief wants my stuff they're most likely going to be the old-fashioned, lazy thief that walks up to my back door with a crowbar. But, again, to each their own.
The thermostat is a long, long way from the point. Get into a router, get into any machine or data storage on the same network.
I found a dime in change today that you could have done that with. From 1900. No joke (a Barber dime).
I have eaten there. I once lived in that neighborhood. As I recall the guy that owned it had a whole bunch of letters on the wall from famous people he wrote to.
For me? A Junior HS teletype machine of some kind connected to a big mainframe at GE in New Jersey with paper tape in BASIC--via a long distance connection too, when that cost real money. In 1966 or 1967. One of our teachers arranged it--somehow.
Which I was aware of, being a Barber dime collector. It's not in great shape, however. What the slabbers like to call "environmental damage". Still fun to find.
It's probably Precum's fault somehow that industry standards for IoT security are poorly implemented.
I have checked every coin which has passed through my hands since at least the end of the Eisenhower administration. Back in the early 60s I found a couple of Indian Head cents and even a V nickel or two, but I never found a Barber coin of any denomination. Bravo, sir!
When I was a kid in the 70s, I'd occasionally see a steel penny. The wheat leaf backed pennies weren't that unusual. You'd still see silver certificates too.
Precourt: It is my honor to officially welcome @StDavidsHC as the Official Healthcare sponsor of #AustinFC. pic.twitter.com/sn9dpcghsX— Austin FC (@AustinFC) May 22, 2019 Did Precourt pick up the tab at their lunch?
My 8 year old kid asked me if I had any of “that paper money”. TVs and cash are a thing of the past fortunately or unfortunately. It’s amazing how much changes in 30 years... Also, on topic, Miki says he got word of a major announcement out of ATX. Said it’s surprising. He can’t comfirm it yet but said it’s a shocker. I have no idea what he means. Edit: Miki says today’s announcement isn’t it.
The 1943 cents were withdrawn sometime in the mid-60s, because their appearance confused people who only glance at coins. I can remember having no trouble getting any number of them from the cash register at a mom & pop store before about 1967. For non-numismatists wondering what we're talking about, during World War II copper was a strategic metal and governments on both sides experimented with replacing it with other metals in low-denomination coins. In the U.S. this took the form of minting the one cent coin from zinc-coated steel during 1943. A small handful of the planchets somehow were struck into 1944 dated cents in error, and they are quite valuable. Nickel was also a strategic metal, and there was no nickel in the five cent coin from October 1942 through the end of 1945.
From Miki's blog on the subject: He mentions a tip, five other sources, and he clearly indicates that today's announcement was a "founding partner". So whatever he was working on is something "much more interesting" per his twitter. https://socceresq.com/2019/05/22/sometimes-you-run-into-a-dead-end/
This was my second. Back in '74 I found one in change from a vending machine at school (college)--which was in better shape that the one I had in my collection at the time (and the one I found is still in my collection). Before the switch away from silver, I would find a lot of Mercury dimes--but they were as little as only 20 years old at that point in time.