Cybercriminals Could be Coming After Your Coffee

darkreading ^ | 10/23/2020 | Curtis Franklin Jr.

[fr_freak]

Unfortunately, Mr. Coffee is made in China.

[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

They could bring convenience and efficiency under "friendly" environment. However there is a downside if that is not the case.

Tech giants are tirelessly promoting the technology to boost their profit, attempting to take control over many traditional industries. It is rather successful in its application to many manufacturing facilities. However, it is a limited market. So they want to move into far larger consumer market.

[Robert DeLong]

Naivety. Children in adult bodies being impressed by the neat gizmos. Life will hit them like a ton of bricks, and they won't know how to cope. Yes, the future looks bleak in so many ways, except that Jesus's return can't be too far away. 8>)

May the Lord bless the world. We will need his blessing.

[MayflowerMadam]

I have a feeling the toasters are the instigators — the four-slice ones. Never trusted them.

[MayflowerMadam]

We bought a Sleep Number bed a couple months ago. The installer asked for our smart phones so he could connect the bed to the internet. I don’t know why, but I know it was not an option. We said we only have flip phones. We don’t but we told him that.

[Chickensoup]

I had the Honeywells installed all over the house.

[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

Your nightmare has already happened on a massive scale.

https://www.smartspate.com/how-to-hack-50000-network-printers/

[zeugma]

Yup. I remember reading about some of that.

This is why my printer is networked, but only locally on my lan. If someone gets through my firewall, I have bigger issues than my printer.

[Excellence]

My landlady can change the combo on the front door lock remotely. Fortunately, I have a hard key.

[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

Remote key is a bad idea. In most cases, hard analog device is much safer even though it could be really inconvenient. So if safety is a paramount concern, try analog approach first.

I heard a story about Chinese industrial espionage. Usually, Chinese hacked into a rival company and steal things like blueprint. It is nearly impossible to do it to Japanese companies because they have their blueprint on a sheet of paper and store it in a secure vault.:)