Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days(www.dexerto.com)
32 pointsby ck23 hours ago3 comments
  • altairprime2 hours ago
    In the Twitter thread linked, the person confirms two things:

    1. It saturated the local network with 1TB of metadata sniffing scans, not the network uplink to the outside world.

    2. It does so because, as Keurig notes, it’s collecting data about your household in order to let Keurig sell it to advertisers.

    • whycome42 minutes ago
      Why is this allowed? There’s no way to consent to a coffee machine.
      • Neywiny28 minutes ago
        Presumably during setup and connection to the AP it has a ToS. Doubtful they just unboxed, plugged in, and it connected to the right AP and went.
    • lazidean hour ago
      #1 - why? #2 - oh, because fucking yikes.
  • tamimio31 minutes ago
    Reminds me when couple years ago I plugged the TV to the internet (so my relatives kids can watch YT) and I forgot to unplug it for almost a week after, only to find the router dns resolved (and blocked) a million queries, all from that one TV!
  • ck22 hours ago
    it took me a month to notice my Midea A/C was absolutely hammering my router

    I didn't even know it had wifi capability but it was trying to connect

    I use mac whitelist so it wasn't even getting in but that didn't stop it from trying every seond

    Fortunately it was just a usb dongle so yanked it out

    • altairprime4 minutes ago
      [delayed]
    • ars2 hours ago
      I have two of them, and I just checked and both are quiet. Mine don't connect to WiFi unless you go through an entire process first with an android phone and Matter.

      It's great having them on WiFi - you can turn on the AC before getting home to pre-cool, without having to leave it on all day.

      • sillyfluke3 minutes ago
        Boy: So, how it get this bad grandpa?

        Man: Well, before you couldn't turn on the AC before you got home