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Nov 9, 2026, 4:18 AM@hacks4pancakes I only understand like 30% of the words of this blog posts but I think nowhere in there does it say why a supermarket fridge needs internet. Sooooo
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Blakeblogwash@mastodon.socialNov 9, 2026, 4:25 AM@shellsort "Everyone Wants Access"
Lesley Carhart :unverified:hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchangeNov 9, 2026, 4:34 AM@blogwash @shellsort to be specific, food regulations (in multiple) require temperature be maintained at a specific level at all times. I mean, beyond just ... food safety.
Most people with no staff do that via mobile apps.
JestbillJestbill@mastodon.worldNov 9, 2026, 4:45 AM@hacks4pancakes @blogwash @shellsort If a fire breaks out in a building, an alarm goes off that can be heard for some distance away.
What about a local temperature alarm?
Is there really NO LOCAL STAFF?
Nov 9, 2026, 10:25 AM@hacks4pancakes
The monitoring part is the one I get, and the majority of comments I read acknowledged that this is useful. But why is there no "read-only" mode? Only local staff know what's actually in those fridges so they still have to decide what temperature to set it to. Maybe corporate even dictates that, but if they were to make any changes remotely they'd still have to coordinate with the guys who actually stock the shelves. In cases like that blood bank, that should literally never even happen.
So is it that people just leave their devices at the insecure default of "can do everything, even though we're not using it" or that the manufacturers don't even implement such a thing as "monitoring-only, can only be changed on the local control panel"?
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gunstickgunstick@mastodon.opencloud.luNov 10, 2026, 3:32 PM@shellsort @hacks4pancakes
Because it is cheaper than to have people roaming the supermarket regularly to check the temperatures.
And they don't want to pay anyone to do it in case they would disconnect the fridges. So they stay connected.
And get owned. Which costs more than to have a bunch of people manually checking the numbers.
#capitalism- shellsortshellsort@mastodon.socialNov 10, 2026, 5:17 PM
@gunstick @hacks4pancakes Why does anyone need to check? Or whats complicated about any of this? I mean maybe I'm oversimplifying, but at home I buy a fridge, plug it in and its consistently cool for 40 years or so. Even if I really wanted to do this I would never think of adding grafana to my fridge.