Well, I guess I finally understand the purpose of smart fridges. They’re for people who need to be watching porn every waking minute.
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There’s a huge, huge difference between an attack on our “current cybersecurity paradigm” (ooh, good words there, John) and a 14 year old fiddling with Internet Explorer on a web-enabled fridge on the floor at Home Depot, which I guarantee is what happened here.
This is the 2016 equivalent of leaving BOOBIES on the calculators at Kmart.*
*which I totally never did
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Life goal: do the calculator thing 5,318,008 times.
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no fridge…“hotpockets the FOOD”…bad fridge.
AI lack human inhibitions…
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The museum I work at has a bunch of interactive info panels for exhibits and … they’re all basically iPads. More than once have I gone into a gallery and found that something that’s supposed to be telling you about lightsabers is actually displaying Facebook or something else.
I haven’t seen any porn myself yet, but we do have a kiosk where you can design your own LOTR-esque fantasy map. Which, in a poor design decision, allows you to type in any name for your fantasy kingdom with only the very weakest of profanity filters. “Guys, can you reboot the map again? It’s displaying ‘The Kingdom of MILFjuice’.”
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Worst I ever did was set up a display computer at Best Buy to show Sad Kermit’s “Hurt” video repeatedly.
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I always enjoyed all the “FREE KEVIN” stuff at J&R Computer World in the 90s.
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This computerization of appliances is such a stupid idea. I just replaced the mainboard on my 9 year old Samsung fridge for the 2nd time. Lovely trick it pulls is not refrigerating, but displaying the set temps rather than actual temps. Power cycle it and THEN it’ll tell you the fridge is 58 deg not 36. And that display of set temps rather than actual is NORMAL, unlike every other digital thermostat anywhere. They don’t want you knowing how bad they are at holding the set temp.
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Of all the people to spot navigate to porn at the Sears Home Depot.
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Sounds like I did a good thing in repairing our old-school fridge rather than getting a new one – nothing but analog in that thing (perhaps a few basic ic`s)
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Yeah, but depending on how old you may be paying for a lot more electricity. Newer appliances, especially fridges and AC’s are way more efficient.
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It will be in all of them soon enough.
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[insert childish joke about pulling your meat out]
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Nobody is going to take that bet.
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It’s new enough to be fairly efficient, just old enough to be relatively simple.
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Thank you! What’s particularly annoying is that even the “downmarket” appliances that look analog have motherboards to fail.
Seems like there would be a market niche for high-reliability, low-tech appliances that last decades.
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And THAT’s how you sell a fucking refrigerator!
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A literal one!
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Good luck finding a mfr that agrees! So much more profitable making expensive, hi tech, failure prone ones. Remember washers that lasted generations? I had a Frigidaire front loader that died due to leaking seals, turned out every one of them died after 3-5 years and the mfr just shrugged like Ferengi, “we have your money”.
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Is this the ice dispenser?
No sir, that is the external access port to the cantaloupe bin.
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