These are fridges in supermarkets, not home fridges. I think a supermarket capable of administering many fridges can put their big boy pants on and handle the potential downsides of controllability.

There was an article recently about a similar hack on fridges in American military bases I believe.

Just when you think the golden age of hackers is over... Wasted food is bad, of course, but this is the kind of genius that military academies can never teach.

Second order thought, this is going to create a nightmare of new AI regulations and if your company has European customers, prepare yourself.

I think it's important to see if this could happen on a larger scale. What if it wasn't only French supermarkets but also important supply chain chokepoints of food worldwide? What would happen to food prices?

The same happened to a major Dutch supermarket chain.

Seems a coordinated attack, perhaps not coincidentally on the day the US supreme NATO commander gave a speech about the defence against (hybrid) attacks.

People never learn:

https://programmerhumor.io/networking-memes/the-ultimate-fir...

Is this the same thing that hit the military bases in the US?

how is it possible that fridges are exposed bare bones to Internet?

why not put them behind corporate VPN of some kind?

It's super bad when even Appie is not safe from those Russians, etc.