▲ 485 ▼ 'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 99 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Why the fuck does a refrigerator need to be on a network? permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* Speculation to your question, for monitoring and control. For monitoring, log temperatures and send error message if it gets too high. Data could be used if any legal question come up about food spoilage. For control, I'm guessing there's times you want to shut it off or enable/disable defrost. Easier to do that at a computer than have controls that are either a pain inthe ass to get to, or too easy for some moron to mess with. That being said, it should be on a local network and have no access to the internet. However a chain store would probably want the data sent to HQ, so the computer would need to be on the network. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* Speculation to your question, for monitoring and control. For monitoring, log temperatures and send error message if it gets too high. Data could be used if any legal question come up about food spoilage. For control, I'm guessing there's times you want to shut it off or enable/disable defrost. Easier to do that at a computer than have controls that are either a pain inthe ass to get to, or too easy for some moron to mess with. That being said, it should be on a local network and have no access to the internet. However a chain store would probably want the data sent to HQ, so the computer would need to be on the network. permalink fedilink source parent