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Your smart home isn’t safe anymore.
Hackers just cooked 300 supermarkets while Apple puts a screen in your living room.
Just two days ago Apple has released a home-hub device. It’s beautiful, reminding me a bit of the iMac G4. It also has cameras, recognizes your face and can turn up the heating or unlock your doors with voice commands. It’s the bright, beautiful and fun future of the Jetsons manifesting itself but…
Two days earlier hackers defrosted hundreds of fridges in French supermarkets. It was a clever hack too. Normally modifying the temperatures sent an alert within minutes, so they hacked the alert first to only fire after eight hours. Then the fridges. Millions of euros of food were spoiled in a year where there wasn’t enough fertilizer in the world due to the war with Iran. That means Europe already has less food than it would have normally.
Both these stories run in the same media outlets. Separately though. I wonder why almost nobody connected the dots. It’s like journalism is dead, and we’re in a world of just reposting other people’s pr messages.
