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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
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Enshittification
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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
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A more legit use case is checking status. Is the coffee ready?
While I really don’t want to compliment Samsung, my “smart” range has a config to disable/enable remote operation. I can see when it’s on, what temp it is, when the oven is up to cooking temperature and when the timer goes off, I get notifications but assuming no holes or bugs it cannot be controlled remotely.
You might ask why they would ever allow “enable” but that’s a different question. They probably feel they have to because the “smart” feature costs way too much money for notifications and statuses.
Isn't that the story of the first webcam?
Plus there’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol
Yup.
xcoffee, it is called, as in coffee for X11Well, that's the problem with IoT devices, isn't it.
The problem is there are easy and well understood ways to prevent that are easier and cheaper, yet manufacturers decide not to use that.
We have several local-only network protocols for exactly this. For residential use, notably Zigbee, z-wave, or Thread, and all of them have much cheaper radios than WiFi. The key benefit here is local only, no direct internet connection.
The only problem is you need a hub and historically not everyone is ready to set one up. However now that Apple, Amazon,and Google are building them into their devices, tens (hundreds?) of millions of people are already set on that