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Story time! Google is (was) famous for having Toto Washlet bidet seats in its restrooms, which have wireless control panels attached to the stalls.

New building opens up, vendor screws up and the control panel in stall #1 is programmed to control the Washlet in stall #2. Cue the predictable (and hilarious) email thread on #<building>-misc, along with a whole lot of memes.

I'm more concerned about why you would need a remote for something that depends on you being there...

It allows a control to be wall mounted without having to run a wire from there to the bidet...

There was a toilet in Japan I couldn't for the life of me work out how to flush, I spent ages in this bathroom checking for buttons here and there. Only after I had given up and walked away from the toiled did it flush.

That's been a constant refrain about IR auto-flushing toilets for about 30 years. They were invented in 1988.

From a security point of view, it sure makes for an interesting attack surface

You have to look out for backdooring though.

That's one penetration test that I would not want to participate in.

Not necessarily you being there.

Pootooth.

If it's ape-like to not be able to detach from your own ass and walk around, I guess I'm in that group too.