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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The physical manifestation of AI slop.
@TheBreadmonkey this started with us military commissionary freezers in August, then a few hundred freezers in France, Belgium and the Netherlands 6 weeks ago. They should by now have known that freezers are a target ...
@TheBreadmonkey yo what’s up i got a deal for you
@TheBreadmonkey MAYbe if you stopped putting yogurt into a *freezer* those little cultures would stop hacking things to be more comfortable.
@TheBreadmonkey A friggin' fridge does not *need* Internet connection, period. If your boss or any consultant tells you otherwise, they are calling the fuckup fairy.
Think of risk mitigation.
@TheBreadmonkey The only realistic use for that is out-of-range temp alerts. But that can be managed with a RasPi or similar and two non-network wires connected to a thermistor.
@TheBreadmonkey I really don't understand the need to connect freezers to internet 🤦🏻♀️
@TheBreadmonkey I am mystified how this could happen again two weeks later. Don't these companies have any IT folks? Hire more geeks!
@TheBreadmonkey It is baffling why hackers would attack a refrigerator.
@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 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
@thibaultmol @TheBreadmonkey this is convoluted but it gets to the point I promise. When I was a student I worked weekends at a London tourist attraction. When people with a disability came in and requested it, they got a free "carer" ticket in addition to their ticket. All the tickets looked the same up to this point.
We had a big briefing in which we were informed the reason a long standing staff member was fired was that for years he had been running a scam where he was putting regular tickets through as disabled, stashing the carer ticket that came with them, then when people paid in cash pocketing the cash and giving them the carer ticket without anything going through the till.
That's not the stupid bit. The stupid bit is another member of staff was sacked a week later after going to the briefing, thinking "that's a clever idea!" and deciding to try it after hearing about how to do it.
They made the tickets look different after that.
@TheBreadmonkey *again