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 I saw a FaceBook ad about hacked yogurt and the customer testimonies said it would change my life.
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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 ...
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@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!
@lobsterofrevenge @TheBreadmonkey They probably don't have enough. And the ones they did have would have been just in the process of coming up with a robust solution when suddenly they got pulled into sorting out the php thing to protect payroll and the supply chain etc. Which should have been simple but with a bit of technical debt gets surprisingly messy and just as you think you've got it mostly sorted, Fridge 2: The Reckoning.
And no, management absolutely does not take this as a sign they need to hire more IT staff, lolololol.
@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.
@TheBreadmonkey Didn't something similar happen several weeks ago? Why have these freezers not been taken off the network?