Comment by skybrian
6 hours ago
True, but they'd need to be specifically checking a thermometer or it might warm up a fair bit before being noticed.
6 hours ago
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?
It is not a low grade risk at all, these represent extreme health risks to the customer.
It may be some time before staff notices a unit is heating up. And if customers aren't paying attention and grab something biologically fragile like milk they could get food poisoning that could hospitalize you for days.