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by serverQuestion 2311 days ago
What if you are a coffee machine manufacturer. a broken device or slow brew can waste way more time. and you can even hot-patch all devices at once!
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An online coffee machine? If that thing's got a vulnerability, I already envision some corporate spy recording discussions, send them home, and comb them for corporate secrets…
They've been putting listening bugs into appliances long before the IoT was a concept. The IoT "connect all the things" approach just makes it easy on a grand scale.