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