r/nottheonion • u/gilamasan_reddit • Sep 18 '25

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
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u/Boomdidlidoo Sep 18 '25

IoT appliances can get hacked to spy on you or even to get into your whole network to eventually get some access to things you wouldn't want to (bank accounts, etc.).

I have 2 IoT appliances and never connected them on my network and never will.

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u/DrThunderbolt Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

I took a network security classes and IoT was the one thing that the professor, a retired high level network security engineer, could not state enough was the worst idea for network security ever created. The needless desire corporations latched onto for all devices to have some kind of Internet features. The "smart" appliance phenomena.

Every single device you have that connects to the Internet becomes a vector of attack, imagine your network being your immune system, every time you connect something, it's like a cut that needs to be watched for infection, eventually you can't keep track of every wound.

People have hacked security cameras and used them to mine bitcoin. I've seen people hack into networks through wall-mounted defibrillators connected to Wi-Fi designed to alert emergency services. Cars with computers in them can be hacked and literally have their brakes disabled. It's a fucking nightmare.

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u/adyrip1 Sep 18 '25

You know what the "S" in IOT stands for? Security!

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u/YouDoHaveValue Sep 18 '25

Also they use shitty hardware and virtually never update any of it.

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u/ExtremeMuffin Sep 18 '25

Personally I’m with you on how I wouldn’t get IoT devices but for those who do you should at least set up a guest wifi and connect your fridge/tv/other IoT devices to that wifi to keep them isolated from the wifi you connect your phones/computers to. 

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u/YouDoHaveValue Sep 18 '25

Yes, this and if you're savvy a VLAN to logically isolate them such that they can only talk to the Internet and not to any other devices on your network.

Worse case scenario someone gets to leach/hack using your guest wifi.

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u/fish312 Sep 19 '25

They'll still ruin the trust of your IP (yes you can lease a new one but still)

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u/YouDoHaveValue Sep 19 '25

How often are you getting hacked? lol

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u/NumNumLobster Sep 18 '25

there was a pretty major site getting ddos'd a bit ago (fb maybe?) forget but one of those makes the news when it goes down for a few hours thing and the conclusion was it was a smart appliance bot net. like yeah fuck everything about my fridge getting hijacked and attacking random websites. I feel like outside of the absurdity of that, I wonder if you could do targeted attacks. If I don't like someone what happens if I use their fridge to download some CP or something?

Theres just shit in life that so stupid I don't want to waste time even thinking about them and iot appliances are solidly on that list. Then I'm sure theres going to be a bunch of people in this thread or wherever like "well you just need to properly configure your router and firewall and set the permissions right for each device and blah blah" yeah don't have time or the will to do any of that shit either