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Anonymous ID: 35f1ec June 3, 2019, 6:04 p.m. No.6665371   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Google Nest Users Couldn’t Unlock Doors, Use A/C, or Operate Baby Monitors During Platform Outage

 

Is a “Smart” home really a happy home? Besides the increasing reports of privacy and cybersecurity risks and violations, when platform outages happen, everything connected to it stops working.

 

From FastCompany.com

 

Last night, Google reported several issues with its Cloud Platform, which made several Google sites slow or inoperable. Because of this, many of Google’s sites and services–including Gmail, G Suite, and YouTube–were slow or completely down for users in the U.S. and Europe.

 

However, the Google Cloud outage also affected third-party apps and services that use Google Cloud space for hosting. Affected third-party apps and services include Discord, Snapchat, and even Apple’s iCloud services.

 

But an especially annoying side effect of Google Cloud’s downtime was that Nest-branded smart home products for some users just failed to work. According to reports from Twitter, many people were unable to use their Nest thermostats, Nest smart locks, and Nest cameras during the downtime. This essentially meant that because of a cloud storage outage, people were prevented from getting inside their homes, using their AC, and monitoring their babies.

 

Of course, if you don’t mind using keys to open doors and manually turning on and off the air conditioner and baby monitors, you don’t need smart home technology.

 

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/06/google-nest-users-couldnt-unlock-doors-use-a-c-or-operate-baby-monitors-during-platform-outage.html

Anonymous ID: 35f1ec June 3, 2019, 6:12 p.m. No.6665445   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5476

Sanders Labels Politico Article About His Finances ‘Anti-Semitic’

 

Independent Vermont Sen. and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders labeled a Politico article digging into his finances “anti-Semitic” during an interview over the weekend.

 

Sanders stated, “Call that what it is. It’s an anti-semitic article,” in an interview with The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur.

 

Politico’s article from last month, “The Secret of Bernie’s Millions,” was an investigation into how the self-proclaimed democratic socialist amassed significant wealth and properties despite “unrelentingly” railing on the 1%.

 

“The whole article, it’s littered with innuendo about, like, ‘Oh yeah, he talks about millionaires and billionaires controlling government, but now he’s a millionaire,’” Uygur previously stated back when the story was published, according to Mediaite. “It’s a one smear after another after another after another.”

 

Aside from the content of the article, some of the illustrations to go along with the article faced criticism. One of them showed Sanders, who is Jewish, looking off into the distance with a mansion over one shoulder and a tree with dollar bills as leaves. Another one shows him holding a house in his hands with two more houses appearing on each shoulder. The three houses represent his three properties.

 

Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez previously weighed in on the article questioning “how photoshopping money trees next to the only Jewish candidate for president and talking about how ‘cheap’ and rich he is isn’t antisemitic?”

 

Sanders speech writer David Sirota and chief of staff Ari Rabin-Havt also criticized Politico’s article.

 

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/03/bernie-sanders-politico-anti-semitic/