{"id":985,"date":"2017-04-05T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2017-04-05T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:59:19","slug":"iot-garage-door-opener-maker-bricks-customers-product-after-bad-review-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/iot-garage-door-opener-maker-bricks-customers-product-after-bad-review-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"IoT garage door opener maker bricks customer\u2019s product after bad review | Ars Technica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ouch. Talk about poor customer service. A particularly irate customer who bought an IoT garage door-opener posts a nasty review and his device was denied server access, effectively making it useless or &#8220;bricking&#8221; it. Imagine posting a bad review about your Smart TV and it stops working. Hmmm.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Startup tells customer \u201cYour unit will be denied server connection.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/04\/iot-garage-door-opener-maker-bricks-customers-product-after-bad-review\/\">IoT garage door opener maker bricks customer\u2019s product after bad review | Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ouch. Talk about poor customer service. A particularly irate customer who bought an IoT garage door-opener posts a nasty review and his device was denied server access, effectively making it useless or &#8220;bricking&#8221; it. Imagine posting a bad review about your Smart TV and it stops working. Hmmm. Startup tells customer \u201cYour unit will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}