Coffee machine uses 1,000GB of traffic in 10 days, leaves IT Pro shocked

yet there's nothing shocking about a coffee machine that needs to connect to the internet

This reminds me the tue smart tea kettle that required an always online connection to function, and became completely useless when the servers shut down.

Yes, it was a kettle. Yes, like the one you use for boiling water.

It had settings for certain types of tea that it didn't have on-device. And it didn't have a basic "just boil the water" function.

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Wow! It's almost as though random household appliances shouldn't be connected to the internet

mine did, too, and downloaded a bunch of torrent movies

probably training its llm

Anyone else remember the massive bot net that killed the internet in Europe and half the US doing a DDOS attack over a Minecraft server? Apparently it was mostly made of smart refrigerators, thermostats, and other appliances.

Pod coffee machines are a businesses dream. Lock in the customers. And then don't care about the plastic and foil waste per cup you create in order to do this. No surprise if they do other bad things. Visiting friends and they show you their pod machine? Ask them what happens with the used pod? Do them a favour and tell them there is a better way. Such as coffee machines that you put beans in. No not Heinz baked beans you moron! Coffee beans that produce only bio degradable waste. And freshly ground tastes great. No chemicals added.

Wasting your internet is trivial compared to the landfill waste created.

With this much data, maybe it's not a coffee machine, but a replicator.

Nomad said that most of the suspicious traffic didn’t escape the network.

Okay so it was just a bug that caused repeat/looping LAN traffic. This is sensationalized.

Why the fuck does a coffee machine need the internet.

IT pro shocked! Jfc what kind of society did we become? This is so embarrassing to read. Just the thought of humans ending up here. Something about an internet coffee machine malfunction.

It's all so ignorant and moronic.

Why the fuck would you connect a coffee machine to the internet?

What advantage would you have? Anyway it requires a pod to be inserted manually, so it's not that you can operate remotely.

"But one day I could get a new setting for a new kind of recipe"

What kind of "recipe", it's just putting pressurized boiling water in a cup.

The only kind of update this machine will ever get is a DRM to block compatible/unofficial pods

BTW 10gb downloaded in 10 days is also not bad

Use a damn French press.

It's not hard.

These stupid machines suck, make shit coffee, and surveil you.

People are so lazy

Everyday apliances being online is just insane to me.

How many times is this going to be posted? It’s it even a news article. It turned out to be nothing.

Tried a pod machine at work for a bit. It made warm, weak coffee.

I use a Bialetti Moka. Makes great coffee.

Tired of seeing this sensationalist X post reposted.

Keurig machines are everywhere. Has anyone verified this? Don't give x users this much attention. What kind of IT expert posts on X? Smart enough to know better, but supporting fascism nonetheless - worst of the worst.

No, it didn't "use" data.

"Nomad said that most of the suspicious traffic didn’t escape the network. He has a hypothesis that the unit was simply affected by a bug. Nomad said he has over 10 years of experience in IT and works as a Technical Field and Community Specialist at the 3D printer manufacturer Prusa."

Absolutely what I thought. I love how everyone assumed it was hacked... In the 20 years I have been at my job we have had a particular model of desk phone that it happened to twice and when it did it creates a network storm and tanks your entire network (at the time this company did not have proper vlans in place which would have mitigated the issue). You trace it to the device and reboot it and everything is fine again. The phones were still replaced just in case, but that was always one of the wilder ones here. My guess is this was something similar and since it's his older parents they probably didnt even notice the network being bogged down.

"After rebooting the device and reconnecting it to a segregated virtual LAN (VLAN), the issue did not reappear."

Why even bother? Is it actually required to have an internet connection? If so get rid of it, thats so dumb and intrusive... and if not just turn off wifi on it, why even leave it on at all.