Comments on: Is your TV virus-proof?

As more cars and home appliances get networked, owners run a greater risk of contracting computer viruses.

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Microsoft is the problem

If you are dumb enough to use something that is as insecure as
Windows in your car....then you will deserve it when you breaks
lock up while on the highway because your car's "brains" had a
critical error and had to dump its memory.
When will the lemmings learn.

[Jonathan]

Oh joy....ignorance at its best.

So how do you explain the Symbian OS Worms that came out last year that spreads via BlueTooth. I'm not defending Microsoft but the cure all sure as hell isn't just switching to another OS. I will say this about Microsoft. NO WAY IN HELL am I purchasing a MS based consumer product other then a PC. All system may be susceptible to malware but Windows is NOT a good all around OS for consumer products. I?ve seen Windows ATM?s BSOD. ***?!?!
The only real way to be secure it to build your own OS or make it proprietary enough that a virus that works on one system can't just jump to another or simply doesn't function or the system. The issue is cost. Building an OS is obviously more expensive then nabbing one that is pretty much ready to go out of the box with only minimal tweaking required. That is why you are seeing everything from ATMs to cars running Windows. It?s cheap. You can determine whether I?m talking price, quality or both.

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You Can't Read, Can You?

The article is talking about how home appliances will be the target, does it say anything about "MS Only"? Obviously MS haters have no tempers and no brains.

[Prndll]

This is NOT just an MS concern...

The real problem here is that it just is not appropriate to make everything network addressable. Regardless of OS, making things network addressable is going to create an entire host of new problems.

Although, I really don't care for the idea of needing to pay $300+ for a code key to access and drive my new car or for that matter, the ability to use my new electric shaver.

I wonder about the potential threats associated with the possibility of my electric shaver sending digitized DNA data over the internet through a WIFI setup to anyone.