What did I say? You connect appliances to the internet, this is what you get. You should not be able to hack yoghurt.
Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack
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@TheBreadmonkey Who could possibly have seen this coming?
@TheBreadmonkey so all the other supermarkets in europe looked at the 'hack' (out of date software and default credentials) and didn't go: "oh shit, we also have internet connected freezers, we should make sure we're secure"... ffs
@TheBreadmonkey But if the machines are not connected to the internet how can the company lay off the staff who monitor those machines? Don't you know they need to squeeze another teeny tiny bit of profit out of the system?
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We (collectively) have known the peril and pain of connecting coolers to the Internet.
But I guess it's a lesson that will keep needing to be learned experientially.
Here's a favorite essay by the excellent @jbcrawford
Computers Are Bad
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@TheBreadmonkey Network security is hard, chapter 73.
@TheBreadmonkey My ice cream will never be digitised!