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Mojoman

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If you are interested in tech and hacking IOT devices...We all have mates who just plug and play with everything and never change any default/factory settings...

As a thought experiment, Martin Hron, a researcher at security company Avast, reverse engineered one of the $250 devices to see what kinds of hacks he could do. After just a week of effort, the unqualified answer was: quite a lot. Specifically, he could trigger the coffee maker to turn on the burner, dispense water, spin the bean grinder, and display a ransom message, all while beeping repeatedly. Oh, and by the way, the only way to stop the chaos was to unplug the power cord.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/how-a-hacker-turned-a-250-coffee-maker-into-ransom-machine/?fbclid=IwAR0fLBJZVFfxhEyZ2Sh_cwOSc8SK5lZkB0vr1OtiklgS_mzNYEFCiZxCCM4

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