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 there are probably great reasons for connecting supermarket fridges to the internet though, monitoring hundreds of freezers across dozens of shops to ensure they're confirming to food safety laws for example.
It's not the same as a consumer connecting their fridge to the web so they can play games on the door or whatever smart fridges are supposed to be for
You know one can have computerized control of refrigeration units and freezers in a store without being connected to the Internet.
@TheBreadmonkey Why can't someone just hack bread machines in a nice way so that when I get home, SURPRISE! There's a fresh loaf waiting for me.
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We’re hurdling towards “the internet of nothing” where we’re afraid to connect anything to it
@TheBreadmonkey when smth like this happens I ask myself the reasons first.
In this case, I can't really find one.
Sure the chains lost money (or maybe not even that bc of insurance?), but **food** has being thrown away.
Not to mention animals that were killed for nothing.
Is it just a showcase of hacking skills / cybersecurity or some anti-capitalism/anti-conglomerate or is there a big picture I'm missing?
Months ago escalators were hacked, which somehow affected me (and I somehow found it funny), but throwing food away is somehow inhumane.
@TheBreadmonkey Same brand as was in the news 3 weeks ago. Username: admin Password: Today’s Date. Someone signed off on this design. Someone else wired them to the public Internet.
@TheBreadmonkey My ice cream will never be digitised!
@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@TheBreadmonkey so all the other supermarkets in europe looked at the 'hack' (out of date software and default credentials) and didn't go: "oh shit, we also have internet connected freezers, we should make sure we're secure"...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 It is baffling why hackers would attack a refrigerator.