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#210450 28-Mar-2017 00:16

So Miele made an internet connected dishwasher. And predictably failed to secure it properly, and completely ignore the calls to patch the security hole - leaving the unit open to abuse for anyone that can get access to its ip-address.

Dishwasher has directory traversal bug

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#1749140 28-Mar-2017 06:51

I can't imagine what a web server on a dishwasher would do for me, the customer.

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#1749148 28-Mar-2017 07:34

Yeh thats pretty poor.

I mean, my regular dishwasher washes dishes. So I don't really see the benefit of buying a IoT dishwasher.

My wife wanted me to buy this samsung fridge for $8.5K which had all this un-necessary stuff in it too, like a web browser, cameras in the fridge a sound bar and pandora.

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#1749149 28-Mar-2017 07:35

Technically its not a clasic dishwasher, its a

"Laboratory Glassware Washer PG 8527 / PG 8528"

It has the abilty to scan bar codes on wash batches and presumable pass that along..

http://www.miele-pro.com/us/prof/products/14071_16161.htm

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#1749150 28-Mar-2017 07:40

As above, it's for use in laboratories so isn't something people will have sitting at home behind an ISP supplied modem/router combo.
While still silly to not bake any security into the device, one would hope that a an institution needing this would have a competent IT team who would prevent this accessing the internet.

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#1749153 28-Mar-2017 07:56

With so many security exploits in so called IoT devices (and exploits in more common things such as CCTV / VoIP) I really think port forward functionality should be removed from routers!

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#1749169 28-Mar-2017 08:50

Port forwarding will become a thing of the past - just wait till all those insecure IoT devices get a public IPv6 address!

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