Comment by skybrian
4 hours ago
When a freezer stops working and nobody notices for a while, the food will spoil then, too.
If it were monitoring-only, rather than connected to the power, it would probably be fine.
4 hours ago
When a freezer stops working and nobody notices for a while, the food will spoil then, too.
If it were monitoring-only, rather than connected to the power, it would probably be fine.
It’s a supermarket, staff will be stocktaking, restocking, walking past A LOT.
True, but they'd need to be specifically checking a thermometer or it might warm up a fair bit before being noticed.
Any industrial fridge, even many home fridges, have a sound alarm if some temperature threshold is reached. It is trivial to _send_ alerts if the threshold is crossed. What is less common is remote control.
E.g. the -80°C's in our lab are all naturally air gapped: the monitoring system is send-only.
It’s kind of a low-grade risk though, don’t you think? I imagine it’s unlikely we’d see major changes over “some stores lost a few hundred grand due to a cyber attack”.
I suppose it could expand, but even still, there’s plenty of non-perishable foods. It would be annoying at worst, but maybe never outright dangerous?
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Well "a" (aka 1) freezer malfunctionning will let a few items spoil. Hundreds of connected appliances nation wide, that's a different story.
They had been able to manage just fine for several decades before internet of shits happened.
Fear not for them though, they'll go whine under the government's noze and get a refund. So much for the liberalism they praise when everything is fine for them.