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Re:Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarke... by _kb on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:02PM (#50410070)
That seems pretty location dependant. In Australia at least the two major supermarket chains are not insignificant (e.g. EBITDA ~$5 billion and ~$2.6 billion) and have large internal tech and cyber teams.

I think this is more indicative of the plethora of technical debt and straight up technical negligence that's accompanied the past 10-15 years of internet connected everything. What's happening today is the predictable result of project based works funded by capex deploying assets (of all types) with no consideration of opex funding for the technology components.

Just because a webserver is running in some physical device (fridge, camera, vacuum, washing machine, pump controller, lighting system, audiovisual equipment, access control system etc) does not magically exempt it from the same sort of ongoing sysadmin and maintenance you'd expect as a baseline for something running on standard compute. That applies equally to manufacturers publishing firmware, and the asset owners/service companies that have the responsibility to apply.

Re:Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarke... by gspr on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:17AM (#50411629)
Agree with all of what you're saying, wholeheartedly.

But I keep coming back to: why do supermarkets need networked freezers anyway? Most supermarkets are open most days, with long hours. Can't any adjustments just be done manually by staff on the rare occasions when that is needed? I've seen some people argue that the major usecase is defrosting. But when you're defrosting, you certainly have lots of people on site engaged in emptying the fridge in question. Surely flipping the thermostat is a rounding error as far as costs go?

Re:Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarke... by minusLik on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:09AM (#50413947)
Networking freezers is good for: * continuous monitoring and logging of the freezer's temperature (supermarkets are obliged to do so) * sending alerts when something's off

Regarding the defrosting: Commercial freezers can defrost while the groceries stay in, just like the "No-Frost" freezer at home.

Re:Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarke... by Shadowmist on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:59AM (#50414345)
Monitoring/logging/alerting can all be done without storing the network connected computer up to anything that can change the temperature settings. It can and should be a completely separate system.