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staminade • today at 2:56 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

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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atmavatar • today at 3:35 PM

Monitoring doesn't require anything more than read-only access to fridge data.

Ironically, were the monitoring system competently made, not only would it have been unable to cause this problem, but it would have also been able to alert about it in time to prevent significant loss.