TXU is rolling out a new thermostat that can be programmed by the owner over the Internet. Sounds good, right? I mean, say you’re traveling and forgot to raise the AC before you left. Click-click-click, you’re done. Oh, but wait, there’s a catch! TXU can adjust the thermostat, too, meaning they can arbitrarily decide to turn off your AC to save themselves money. Um, what?
As if that wasn’t bad enough, your new $3000 Jura F90 coffeemaker, which comes with a handy Internet Connection Kit, can be apparently be hacked to unleash what BoingBoing refers to as a “denial-of-coffee attack”.
As one BoingBoing commenter put it, “For that price you can fly to Paris and sit in an actual cafe and drink 500 cups of coffee served to you by a variety of cute waiters while people-watching and reading a good book.”
Or you could just stay home and soak in the air conditioning.
