Remember kids: if you see something, no you didn’t. Move along and mind your business.

Flock Safety’s cease and desist later is just the latest in a long list of groups turning to bogus intellectual property claims to silence their critics. Frequently, these have no legal basis and are designed to frighten under-resourced activists and advocacy groups with high-powered law firm letterheads. EFF is here to stand up against these trademark bullies, and in the case of Flock Safety, flip them the bird.

Everybody say it with me: 🖕

I’m of the mindset that if it exists, it’s meant to be viewed and seen. Otherwise, what’s the point?

They really should have gone with a font that had a more pronounced G that doesn’t look like a C at first glance. 😳

Good point. I did not consider this. Thank you.

You make a terrifyingly interesting point. I did not consider this. Thank you.

I have a smart tv, washer, and dryer. None of them are connected to a network. They can’t do anything “smart” without a network. You don’t need to take apart or disconnect anything. In fact, doing so could cause problems if you nick the wrong wire or component.

Just leave it be and you should be fine.

I would be sorely disappointed if a professional fighter in real life hasn’t tried to pull this joke off just to get in their opponent’s head.

And of course freezing this data is possible, but you have to mail it in, along with proof of identity. 🙄

I’m an iOS user who has not installed custom fonts. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Certainly that wouldn’t provide much useful information?

He wanted to be evil, and one of his evil acts was to not pet the dog. In turn the dog got sad and it made him feel so bad he wants to be thrown out like the garbage he is.

I feel like this is a conversation I’ll be having with my 9-year-old, when he’s older. Say maybe 10 or so.

I get where you’re coming from, but given the cost of equipment these days, it’s important to consider whether or not the zero-config big box brand stuff will be around long enough to be worth the cost. While it’s a PITA to spend your efforts setting this all up, doing it yourself using open protocols can be worth it in the long run. And 9 out of 10 times, when you do it yourself, you can just leave it alone and forget about it.

Edit: there is a good write-up between zigbee and matter, and for ease of use it looks like matter would be better for your use cases.

I think what you’re looking for is called a “Catch-All” or wildcard email address. Basically it looks like this: *@yourdomain.tld, and you would set it up to forward to a real email address of your choosing.

These are typically managed either via your domain hosting provider, or possible through your email provider.

Be forewarned, this does open you up to getting more spam because everything is a valid email address.

What’s more disturbing than the filmmakers continually trying to get the ips, is that the courts keep entertaining the filmmakers. At what point does the legal system say enough?