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Security disclosure about a Bluetooth toilet

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Re: Security disclosure about a Bluetooth toilet

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According to this[0] the flush volume of this toilet is 5 liters. If it takes two minutes to flush and refill then the amount of water you could waste in an hour is: 30 * 5 = 150L If a family is away on vacation, you could theoretically flush for days. 24 * 150 = 3600L per day In Seattle the water costs about 4.5 cents per cubic foot.[1] (If it costs 4.50 dollars for one CCF (which is 100 cubic feet) then I move the…

A better way to grief somebody with this is to probably just flush their toilet a bunch while they are home. That would get annoying real quick.

Re: Security disclosure about a Bluetooth toilet

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Toilets are awesome. We rarely talk about them (or sewers), but they are a VERY important part of disease control. Toilets save lives, we just don't realise it.

And electronic bidets are the most awesome of toilets. Once you get used to them (and they are fairly affordable as long as you don't go for Toto), using paper feels so... primitive.

Almost eleven years ago, one Stana Claus contributed† the following factoid to history:

    Just so you know, some varieties of corn have a dark reddish cob
    while others have more of a whitish colored cob. When I was but a
    wee child I was told by my beloved grandfather that the proper
    outhouse technique required "two reds and a white". The red cobs
    (apparently more readily available, at least in that locale) were
    used for bulk removal, and the white was used to determine if the
    job was sufficiently done. Surely, my grandfather wouldn't have
    lied to a small impressionable child about such a thing!
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