Comments on: Internet-connected coffee maker has security holes

Coffee addict discovers problems with his Internet-connected coffee maker that could open up his PC to attackers.


by The_Decider June 17, 2008 12:18 PM PDT: This is why connecting everything to the internet is a terrible idea. The tiny amount of convenience these devices provide do not come close to outweighing the security risks.; Like this Reply to this comment


by Craig-Wright June 17, 2008 12:43 PM PDT: Forget the local host being compromised.

In this case it could result in a Java denial of services... (I know bad pun)

Craig; Like this Reply to this comment


by n3td3v June 17, 2008 1:22 PM PDT: "This is why connecting everything to the internet is a terrible idea."

Yeah but the intelligence services love it, they embrace it. The amount of information being collected over the internet by them has reached an all time high, the intelligence services are in their zone with the information collecting capability that's going on.

If the government didn't like everything connected to the internet, there would have been a clamp down long ago, infact the government love the internet and hope everything can be internet connected soon.

GCHQ and NSA will need to build bigger data warehouses to store everything, but thats not a draw back for them its an investment when you start to see the amount of searchable data being collected about everyone and stored on the intelligence services databases that top spies can access from anywhere in the world just like consumers can with Google search, accept the intelligence services searches don't come up with the next train to catch, they come up with the next terrorist to catch instead.

All the best,

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by Tui Pohutukawa June 17, 2008 2:14 PM PDT: A coffee maker with an internet connection..? Is it 1 April already?; Like this Reply to this comment


by Seaspray0 June 18, 2008 7:03 AM PDT: Nice, Craig-Wright. <applause>. It's truely a "Java" application with a security holes. Maybe it needs a better internet "filter". But what should we expect the way they "grind" out code these days. <you can kill me now>; Like this Reply to this comment


by gary85739 June 18, 2008 10:38 AM PDT: Well, this is the last straw! Mac here I come!; Like this Reply to this comment


by benjamin straight June 18, 2008 2:21 PM PDT: A coffee maker connected to the internet?; Like this Reply to this comment


by shevaberg June 18, 2008 6:37 PM PDT: "by gary85739 June 18, 2008 10:38 AM PDT Well, this is the last straw! Mac here I come! "

ppfffftt... mac filter would cost twice as much as the pc filter for the coffee maker :P; Like this Reply to this comment

by ferretboy88 June 18, 2008 7:01 PM PDT

People need to get a life and cut the crap with all the cracking. Start shooting anyone who hacks and it will stop.


by The_Decider June 18, 2008 8:26 PM PDT: Yeah, the death penalty sure stopped the problem of murder.; Like this


by Chiatzu June 19, 2008 12:22 AM PDT: Sure, have another cup. You own a machine now and think you're safe, because there so few people connected to the Internet with their coffee/expresso machines. But wait until the market share of coffee makers connected to the Internet is worth the hackers time to write exploits and make them l33t. Rather than enjoy your cup of coffee, you will fear it.; Like this Reply to this comment


by thecynicalpessimist July 13, 2008 9:21 AM PDT: Wait. $2,000 for a coffee maker!?!?!?! When I drink a cup of coffee from that machine, I should get a twenty minute orgasm, otherwise I can get a coffee pot at Wal-Mart for way less and I'll bet 99.999% of the people on this earth couldn't tell the difference; Like this Reply to this comment