I like the suggestion of going into a store and making all the Furbies start talking about building a wall.....
Furby Rickroll demo: What fresh hell is this?
Here's your future botnet, world: connected kids toys that will Rickroll their owners while hosing big servers and guessing the nuclear codes. Hacker Jake Davis, once known as "Topiary" of LulzSec, plucked out the work of Florian Euchner, who pulled apart the Bluetooth variant that toy-maker Hasbro uses to update its "Furby" …
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Tuesday 24th January 2017 07:08 GMT MrDamage
Instead of rickrolling
May I suggest getting them to quote Sovereign from Mass Effect?
"Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding."
"Your words are as empty as your future. I am the vanguard of your destruction."
"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and will end because we demand it."
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Tuesday 24th January 2017 08:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
Toys-R-Us - Search on entry
Should we now presume that entry to a Toy-R-Us et al store will now be subject to full body strip and search, with signs on the doors stating that Routeurs, Proxies of any kind, Portable Phones, Portable Computers etc are now forbidden from entering this "Think of the Children" area...
I can also imagine the geek that programs one of these things to wake up in the middle of the night, making it emit a screaming, screeching or sublimal message to do some nasty, nasty act.... to parents, siblings, animals or whatever other breathing thing abides in the same home. The lawyers would have a field day....
I did like the hack though, from a hackers point of view, even though the perversions that it could cite might be a little overboard...
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Tuesday 24th January 2017 12:17 GMT djack
Spy Furby
Wasn't there some hysteria years ago that furbys might record voice and could be used as a spy device? This got them totally barred from many establishments even though the recording and playback was pretty much uncontrollable.
If you can change it's programming then this one could definitely be used in that way.
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Tuesday 24th January 2017 12:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Spy Furby
Yes, but equally you could use masses of them to provide a great torrent source :) Many toys can have "extras" stored in their chippery.
Must say I quite like the idea of a Furby marching round the house, swearing at the cats then going out to smoke (at least in someone else's house)
Anyone that's seen the movie Small Soldiers will also have a number of amusing scenarios of home wrecking come to mind.
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Wednesday 25th January 2017 01:23 GMT Long John Brass
missed opportunity
No no no, Get it to teach the kiddies all the bad words.
Mommy: Jimmy where DID you hear that word?
Jimmy: Furby told me
Mommy: Don't tell fib Johnny, tell me where you heard that word
Furby: Tell her <insert victim here> told me
Furby; Teaching kids to swear like sailors since 2017
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
