[olug] The Smart Coffemaker hack.

[Justin Reiners]

I'm the same, I read the article on reddit the other day thinking it was
hostile takeover, but I don't think that was it in this case, I myself
would LOVE a rest api enabled coffee maker lol.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:56 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
wrote:

> Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/how-a-hacker-turned-a-250-coffee-maker-into-ransom-machine/
> >
> > I'll stick with my dumb Mr. Coffee.
>
> The article is interesting but I think it truly fails to give a good
> feel for the risk environment.  Unless I misread something that coffee
> maker is not available over the internet, just on your local lan.  It
> requires hacking into your local lan to exploit it.
>
> That makes is so much better and so much more secure than many of the
> pieces of internet connected hardware out there.
>
> Eric
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> https://www.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>