Wednesday, August 19, 2015

There are $5 Wifi buttons that can automatically order from Amazon. Who knew? Well they're hackable for your own evil purposes

From The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/18/9174595/amazon-dash-buttons-hack

It was only a matter of time before someone discovered how to hack Amazon’s dash buttons, the tiny, Wi-Fi enabled devices you can use to buy more detergent or toilet paper at the literal push of a button. As cofounder and CTO of software firm Cloudstitch Ted Benson discovered, with some basic programming skills, you can hack them to do almost anything.

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