Waste Management will take the old stock to use in local landfills to hold garbage like they were designed to do.

And nothing of value will be lost.

Warms your heart to see

Jesus, what a mess. I hope in the future this becomes a "halt all trains" scenario.

I read on another article that there was such a system in place. Too early to say for sure what happened "the LZB signalling system, which automatically halts a train if the line ahead is occupied, had gone down at about 8.30am local time due to a computer malfunction. As a result, an estimated six trains had been halted along a stretch of around 63km" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/28/spain-train-crash-high-speed-toledo

I'm genuinely shocked there's no automated block system on these lines.

Most moral army!

No wonder why Israel is on the edge of civil war.

Terrorism scares, and is used to justify mass surveillance, exceptions in the law to give people suspected of it less rights than people suspected other serious crimes. The terrorist label is somewhat arbitrary, often deserved, sometimes abused to go after environmental activists.

In a more perfect system, the label would have a narrow and explicit definition. Or even be removed from laws, so all serious crimes suspects get the same treatment and fundamental rights, until proven guilty.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this before; not the first time foreign diplomats/politicians get oppresively pressured or attacked.

When Palestinians throw rocks at cars, they’re terrorists. When Israelis do it, they’re rioters. The difference is that terrorists are responded to with machine gun fire and rioters are not.

I guess the rest of the world is now questioning their decision to buy "smart" devices. It seems to me that businesses before tech were way less expensive to run and manage than post-tech capitalism with all of it's tricks, shenanigans and chicanery. The money they think they saved by replacing people with tech sounds like it wasn't worth it.

Danfoss is definitely big enough to hire proper IT professionals and pay for regular audits. Makes me wonder how this mess was even possible.

I read some freezers went way past that and heated up to 80°C.

That seems enough to actually cook most of the stuff.

When I was a manufacturing engineer back in 2016 I ended up on a conference call between maintenance, myself, and the manufacturing engineer that programmed the equipment 2 timezones over. I walked maintenance through the physical set up while on my couch at home, but couldnt find the position reset button in the program on my laptop for a servo drive so I called up the guy who programmed the machine to ask if he could remote in and click the button, also from home.

Bruh useless cyberattack that does no good for anybody. Not a political hack, remotely funny, or affect good change economically

It seems like shooting themselves in the foot if the hackers don't have anywhere to buy food from

That's pretty much my experience too. I also just read that the Danfoss hack involved the username admin and for the password the date of today. A company like Danfoss should really know better, even if it was never meant to be connected to the internet.

Ok, so the fancy new systems are even worse than I expected. I have some experience with the older ones though.

Either those systems were never designed with the Internet in mind, or the people who installed them knew what they were doing and disabled all the unnecessary connections and features. Either way, the systems I've seen are probably pretty tricky to hack. I you want to change anything, you would need to be physically in the same network as the automation system itself.

I work in manufacturing, and the trend there is that most machine suppliers will deliver a machine with it's own PLC where the programming is walled off. They then offer you subscription based support, where they can connect remote through vpn or with a router/5G connection. You need tech-savvy managers to understand the huge risk this carries. Fortunately, lots of people are waking up in Europe due to the NIS2 directive.

the french do like thier wine, naturally it would include crackers and specialty cheese.

They should copy some ideas from the manufacturing industry. If you want to change settings, you need to be physically on site. If you just want to monitor the system, you need to use the company-provided laptop and a VPN.

The article said the defrost cycle was trigged which is what heated the fidges to 50C (I was a bit confused at first as to how they could make them heat up past room temp).

I can imagine use cases for remotely controlling the settings in all the fridges across your hundreds of stores, but I suspect there might be a bit more hesitancy to buy the remotely controlled fridges now.

Probably so it can store the MAC addresses of every device near it and send them home so the manufacturer can sell that info to data brokers for fingerprinting purposes tbh

Stunt totally backfires when it turns all the milk into cheese.