Monday, August 05, 2013

A bug in a "Cutting-Edge Toilet"

A Japanese company, LIXIL, has introduced the Satis, "a cutting-edge toilet with advanced electronics technology".  The toilet is controlled by a sensor and it "opens its lid, plays music, flushes and closes the lid automatically in the reaction to your movement".  At $5,686 the toilet is not cheap.

As with any computer program built by man, errors are possible and this toilet is controlled by an Android application.  Computer security experts have discovered that the Pin code for every toilet model is hardwired to be four zeros (0000), meaning that it can be activated by any phone with the My Satis app. Use your imagination to think what could be done to this cutting-edge toilet and its users.

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