[waltbosz]

Unless the fridge remembers the IDs of each filter, and won't let you reuse the same ID after 3 months (or whatever the service life is of a water filter).

Maybe disabling the RFID reader hardware will make the fridge bypass the lockout code?

The easier solution is just not buy a GE fridge, but the general public won't be aware of the need for that solution.

[blackearl]

Or GE patches in a "fix" to prevent these hackarounds.

I hate this future where I need to prevent a company from updating my wifi enabled fridge so I can get clean drinking water. Oh what a world.

[waltbosz]

Unless it's able to read it from the paper I magnet to its face, there's no why I'd ever tell my fridge my wifi password.

[antpls]

or factory reset the fridge

[ssully]

This is an amazing sentence to read.

I got new appliances a few years ago and luckily it was pretty easy to get "dumb" appliances. I really hope that is still true next time I need to get new appliances.