Shop freezers in seven European countries hit by cyber-attack
www.bbc.com
The temperature of freezers in several shops across Europe reportedly rose to as high as 50C.
    • OwOarchist ( OwOarchist@pawb.social ) 
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      4 days ago

      It might be nice to have an internet connection to monitor the freezer. Check temps, keep a temperature log so you can tell if it ever thawed out due to a temporary power outage or something. Remote alarm if temps go outside of food safe range.

      But I see absolutely no reason why a freezer’s control circuitry needs to be connected to the internet. There’s no reason you’d ever need to turn it on or off remotely … or even really change the temperature remotely. Any time you need to turn it on or off or change the temperature, it’s because you’re taking food in or out of it … which has to be done manually, with physical access to the machine, so you might as well adjust the temperature manually while doing that.

      • Che Banana ( The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 
        1·
        4 days ago

        In restaurants there needs to be a thermometer installed and a routine check of temp. recorded manually…if anything that would be a redundancy that corporate wants to have to keep the middle managers busy

      • daveyOsborn ( daveyOsborn@infosec.pub ) OP
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        4 days ago

        I suppose they would file an insurance claim and not give a fuck. It’s no money out of the pocket of the bean counter who decides infosec costs more than it saves. OTOH, hopefully insurance companies would react by charging a higher premium to grocers who have cloud-controllable refrigeration and no proper infosec. And then maybe /that/ would turn this around.

    • marighost ( marighost@piefed.social ) English
      3·
      4 days ago

      I read somewhere that mentioned the freezer temperatures are controlled from the head office, via the network. If that’s true, that’s why VPN tunnels with access control are so important!!!

  • notsure ( notsure@fedia.io ) 
    2·
    4 days ago

    I bought a refrigerator that talks to the internet, why doesn’t it always work? My mother tells me of ice-boxes which would have a large block of ice, placed on it, once a week. By a human deliverer. Fuck.