Greg Lindsay
@glindsay.bsky.social
You don’t like my ideas? I have others.
Along with Tobias Revell's and @ndkane.bsky.social's HAUNTED MACHINES, which taught me "Any sufficiently advanced hacking is indistinguishable from a haunting." tobiasrevell.com/Haunted-Mach...
Haunted Machines – FutureEverything – 2015-02 — Tobias Revell
Haunted Machines – FutureEverything – 2015-02 Haunted Machines is an ongoing project started by myself and Natalie Kane which launched at and is...
tobiasrevell.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Along with Tobias Revell's and @ndkane.bsky.social's HAUNTED MACHINES, which taught me "Any sufficiently advanced hacking is indistinguishable from a haunting." tobiasrevell.com/Haunted-Mach...
Speaking of which, here's Mat Honan's speculative story from 2014 that was a major inspiration: www.wired.com/2014/06/the-...
The Nightmare on Connected Home Street
I woke up at 4 am to old-timey dubstep spewing from my pillows as the lights flashed on throughout the house.
www.wired.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Speaking of which, here's Mat Honan's speculative story from 2014 that was a major inspiration: www.wired.com/2014/06/the-...
Reposted by Greg Lindsay
You were right back then and it’s only gotten harder to find appliances that aren’t connected. I assume the ability to sell consumer data as an additional revenue stream is irresistible to corporations.
October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
You were right back then and it’s only gotten harder to find appliances that aren’t connected. I assume the ability to sell consumer data as an additional revenue stream is irresistible to corporations.
Reposted by Greg Lindsay
I remember being so excited abt IoT, I was 20, starry-eyed and only worried about privacy in the context of Facebook. I still like the idea of home automation and power use graphs!
But the execution of it all bore horrors i couldn’t have conceived of back then…
But the execution of it all bore horrors i couldn’t have conceived of back then…
October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I remember being so excited abt IoT, I was 20, starry-eyed and only worried about privacy in the context of Facebook. I still like the idea of home automation and power use graphs!
But the execution of it all bore horrors i couldn’t have conceived of back then…
But the execution of it all bore horrors i couldn’t have conceived of back then…
If I'm not the fastest talker who's ever appeared on that network, I'll sleep a week in an Amazon Smart Iron Maiden.™
October 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
If I'm not the fastest talker who's ever appeared on that network, I'll sleep a week in an Amazon Smart Iron Maiden.™
We even talked about it on CSPAN! www.c-span.org/program/publ...
Smart Home Technology
Information technology and legal professionals talked about the benefits of "smart home"* technologies as well as the potential risks they pose in the areas of security and privacy.
* "Smart home" te...
www.c-span.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We even talked about it on CSPAN! www.c-span.org/program/publ...
Wrote a report about this for the Atlantic Council in 2016! And we weren't even early! www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
Smart Homes and the Internet of Things
Read the Publication (PDF) The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next step in the evolution of wireless networks. Analysts predict the IoT will double in size to nearly 50 billion devices by 2020, compr...
www.atlanticcouncil.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Wrote a report about this for the Atlantic Council in 2016! And we weren't even early! www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...