alt Hacker NewsThis is what happens when you over-optimize and over-automate. You should just be able to plug those freezers into power and turn a knob to set the temperature. There is no reason for them to ever have an internet connection.
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staminade • today at 2:56 PM
It's useful to have a central monitoring system, so you can detect if a particular device fails so you can dispatch someone to fix it, move the stock elsewhere, etc. Of course, such systems can also be weaponised against you, as this proves.
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The temperatures of these freezers need to have a centralised audit trail, to comply with foodchain regulations. While such an audit trail could be built without Internet, Internet seems like an obvious solution.
The true problem doesn't lie with Internet access, it lies with low quality software.