Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges

Re:Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European su... by 9x39 on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:58PM (#50062117)

But you’re going to adopt a platform that meets the needs across your enterprise, so the capability is often there even if one situation may only call for monitoring.

Further, once you have hundreds or thousands of devices, “just call someone to turn it up/down/off” doesn’t scale.

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Re:Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European su... by reaperducer on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:39PM (#50062725)

Further, once you have hundreds or thousands of devices, “just call someone to turn it up/down/off” doesn’t scale.

And yet, somehow it did scale just fine for a hundred years before we hooked everything up to the internet.

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Re:Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European su... by echoangle on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:51PM (#50064655)

Yeah, and people sewed clothes per hand for hundreds of years until someone automated it with a machine.

You need to save labor somewhere to free it up for other jobs that give you technological progress. If everyone would still be occupied plowing fields with oxen, we wouldn’t have cars and computers now.

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Re:Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European su... by dalyons on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:01PM (#50063668)

And yet, progress marches forward and people want great efficiency and flexibility.

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Re:Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European su... by account42 on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:08AM (#50070391)

If you measure progess by reports of equipment that was needlessly connected to the internet getting hackedn then sure, those are way up.

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