Put down the pitchforks: this is a demonstration and training exercise
That will be copied and pasted to kingdom come...
Security has to be in the examples, not bolted on afterwards.
Microsoft has GitHubbed a framework that could finally make an Internet-connected refrigerator useful: an application for family members to leave notes for each other. Well, actually FamilyNotes is a developer demonstrator with two aims: to give developers more examples of putting code together in the Universal Windows …
... We've been using "Post-Its"[tm] since about 1980. Place one on a door (cupboard, closet, oven, fridge, garage, front, back, barn, whathaveyou), and all HumansWithAClue know what we need in that venue. Seems to work quite nicely. No computers required. Or wanted, for this particular non-problem.
A stick in't mud? Thats reet posh is that. When I were a lad me old man would make me sit in't cold til I remembered what need doin' and I'd be glad of it. If I could ne'er remember what ee'd want remindin' ee'd send me down't pit fer punishment. Appen sometime's ee'd punch me lights aaht.
Mind you ee'd send me down't pit fer 'oliday an all wi a good punchin'
Bless 'im. Daft ol' bastard. These days ee figures out what needs rememberin' using them there scraps o' tatty newspapers n that there ol' pencil from't bookies. Had that 9 year ee 'as...appen its shorter than the ol' ladies temper now. Been whittlin' it down all them years. Not one for wasting owt my ol' fella.
Mend n mek do...thats what ee always says.
"Microsoft has GitHubbed a framework that could finally make an Internet-connected refrigerator useful: an application for family members to leave notes for each other."
And I have one that renders Microsoft's work obsolete:
A wipeable memo board with attached pen that you stick on the fridge. >POW< Take that, IoT!
I do not want my computer "recognizing" anything except my password. I have been know to use post-it notes...to cover the camera lens on my devices. AC because I'm an old wrinkly lady typing this in the altogether from my bedroom. If you need brain bleach after that, well, Microsoft, stop peeping.
"AC because I'm an old wrinkly lady typing this in the altogether from my bedroom. If you need brain bleach after that, well, Microsoft, stop peeping."
Ain't any of us getting any younger. Love the skin you're in. It's the only one you've got. (I wonder how many teenagers will downvote this post ...)