[LINK] Spare a thought for the fridge magnet sector

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Just as bad: when anyone complains about the spam, security vulnerabilities
and DoS attacks being made against their refrigerators, they will then get
mail-bombed by slashdotters saying things like "If you're not prepared to
learn how the technology works you shouldn't use it!" (Expletives
deleted)...

Never fear, however, for a reasonable price, you'll be able to buy Fridge
Firewall 1.0 which will not only filter all known virii and attack ports
(free upgrade service available at reasonable extra charge), but will also
try and report your refrigerator activity back to a central server; unless
you also buy a spyware filter which will then give you popups saying:
FRZR32.EXE WANTS TO CONTACT FRIDGEFUBAR.COM ON PORT 1868 ALLOW/DISALLOW?
(With a default yes and a five-second timeout).

Worst of all, in 2006 there will be a brand-new must-read from Richard
Stallman called "The Right to Chill".

The possibilities are endless...

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Sanders [mailto:cas@taz.net.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2003 10:34
> To: Stephen Wilson
> Cc: link@anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Spare a thought for the fridge magnet sector
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:25:30AM +1100, Stephen Wilson wrote:
> > My kids' tennis and cricket schedules are e-mailed to us.  We print
> > them out and stick them up on the fridge.  Perhaps the best thing
> > about an Internet fridge is we could receive the schedules 
> in HTML and
> > they'd just pop up on the door automatically right? 
> > 
> > But it's not all good news!  I've just spent a week in Queensland,
> > frequenting the tourist spots.  It's evident from the Big Pineapple
> > Gift Shop that the fridge magnet industry is huge, and must be a
> > significant contributer to the economy.  
> 
> even worse will be the inevitable "fridge spam", where all 
> the MLM jerks
> in your neighbourhood who would ordinarily deface walls and 
> power poles
> with their phone numbers turn to infesting your fridge with gaudy
> animated advertisements.
> 
> actually, it will probably be a race between the MLM scammers and the
> porn spammers to see who gets to your fridge first....won't 
> it be great
> when you can get ads for russian lolita sites plastered all over your
> fridge instead of just in your email?  with javascript "circle-jerk"
> popups that you can't close down.
> 
> craig
> 
> -- 
> craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
> 
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