I would maybe tone that down that sentiment a bit and limit the adjustement.

You actually do want to be able to monitor them remotely, like most industrial/commercial refrigeration, to detect failures faster and more reliably. They should still be at least secured with normal auth/autz in addition to perimeter security, though.

If I can know when a fridge failed within the hour (even at night) then I can also dispatch a technician same/next day more easily.

To be clear, they didn't monitor it 24/7, otherwise they would have noticed the fridges were grilling the pizzas.

Agree. I don't want fridge company or anyone else to turn my fridge into residential proxy with its access sold to the highest bidder to build web scrapers.

basically SCADA but I bet no one remembers that now.

Monitoring would be one thing, but there's almost no conceivable reason to allow setting the temperature or triggering a defrost cycle remotely. When was the last time you changed the temperature setting on your fridge or freezer? It's something you set once when you install it and then never touch again.

This kind of inspector gadget "smart tech" lunacy has infected basically all consumer products. It's got to stop.

Monitor yes

Adjust: possibly, withing a range

Shutting down: Big no no

It's not a maybe. They simply shouldn't. The level of idiocy of not only management but also those who implemented the "security" protecting those online fridges cannot be understated: we're talking about real dumbfucktards.

I see such idiots daily, in all venues of life: the world is simply really full of dumbfucks.

It's simply how things are and we shouldn't be afraid of pointing it out.

Like the other poster mentioned, blanket statements like this ignore the incredibly smart people at major international corporations and their strategies.

I have a smart fridge and washer. I won't name names. But for several years they were never connected or online at all (unless they was compromised and I didn't know). I connected them and one of the first updates included in the washer was changing the default wash cycle from something like 110 minutes to 46 or something. I don't remember all the values if I'm honest.

There are executives who have spreadsheets and charts of how much water that saved per household over varying periods of time. How much it would save with greater adoption. And the unsaid message, or maybe they'll be explicit, of how many people are going to face tragic water supply issues in the future.

It's a powerful message, even if we know it's cyncical and calculated to push not just washers, but firmware security systems and institutions to govern those systems.

And yes, compromised systems can also be used to build zombie networks to push horrible content.

I feel horrible that this critically important surface issue of water supply is used to push other agendas. I honestly wish I could do other work not related to it.