Your alarm triggered the shower's heating unit, so the water comes out at a pleasant 108 degrees, exactly your preference.
Or it would have, except that as a prank your roommate grabbed your CID and changed the preferences so that the water now comes out at 35 F (2 C).
As the door closes behind you, you absently wave your phone by the doorbell panel. The embedded RFID chip triggers the locks and security system, and sends a command to start your car.
Meanwhile, a bad guy read your RFID chip yesterday when you passed him going to the restaurant and made a copy. He uses it to unlock your house, sits down at the PC to install a tool that will send your CID and any other identifying information about you to him, figures out where your car is likely to be, closes the door, re-locking the security system and starting your car. A confederate hops in the now-started car, drives a while, replaces the ID transponder currently in the car with one he can control, and leaves.
You quickly swab your nose and throat, and place the samples on the attachment's sensor, then step into the kitchen to make some tea while you wait. In 20 minutes, the results come back, showing a very strong likelihood that you have the seasonal flu. Your results are automatically sent to the CDC, where their algorithms verify your CID and confirm you had contact with several other people now exhibiting symptoms. An antiviral drug is prescribed for you immediately.
In addition, your insurance company knows that you are now sick, and raises your rates accordingly. Also, you notice that when you visit ad-supported web sites, they're all pushing products to help you combat your illness.
You use the bathroom toilet. It does a scan of the chemicals. Luckily you were clear of marijuana since it would be an instant life sentence in the work camp [1], and as the saying goes, "there are no false positives". If the toilet did find anything, the front door would lock and the police would be present in seconds.
However, you were unlucky on one count, the routine drug scan did detect the metabolized alcohol, and it did send a notice to your employer and health insuran
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
- Alan Turing
Security nightmare (Score:3)
Your alarm triggered the shower's heating unit, so the water comes out at a pleasant 108 degrees, exactly your preference.
Or it would have, except that as a prank your roommate grabbed your CID and changed the preferences so that the water now comes out at 35 F (2 C).
As the door closes behind you, you absently wave your phone by the doorbell panel. The embedded RFID chip triggers the locks and security system, and sends a command to start your car.
Meanwhile, a bad guy read your RFID chip yesterday when you passed him going to the restaurant and made a copy. He uses it to unlock your house, sits down at the PC to install a tool that will send your CID and any other identifying information about you to him, figures out where your car is likely to be, closes the door, re-locking the security system and starting your car. A confederate hops in the now-started car, drives a while, replaces the ID transponder currently in the car with one he can control, and leaves.
You quickly swab your nose and throat, and place the samples on the attachment's sensor, then step into the kitchen to make some tea while you wait. In 20 minutes, the results come back, showing a very strong likelihood that you have the seasonal flu. Your results are automatically sent to the CDC, where their algorithms verify your CID and confirm you had contact with several other people now exhibiting symptoms. An antiviral drug is prescribed for you immediately.
In addition, your insurance company knows that you are now sick, and raises your rates accordingly. Also, you notice that when you visit ad-supported web sites, they're all pushing products to help you combat your illness.
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Well it's not automatic, but my shower already allows me to punch in the exact temperature I want. I like 41 C personally.
And it's not exactly new fangled - it's part of a gas hot water system that we had installed in the late 90s!
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One inserted before the shower:
You use the bathroom toilet. It does a scan of the chemicals. Luckily you were clear of marijuana since it would be an instant life sentence in the work camp [1], and as the saying goes, "there are no false positives". If the toilet did find anything, the front door would lock and the police would be present in seconds.
However, you were unlucky on one count, the routine drug scan did detect the metabolized
alcohol, and it did send a notice to your employer and health insuran