Matthew Garrett on Nostr: Me: (helps design an elaborate mechanism for enabling access to devices without fixed ...
Me: (helps design an elaborate mechanism for enabling access to devices without fixed credentials and without assuming that the device clock is correct or even that the device is online, an actually extremely difficult problem but one that is absolutely tractable)
Refrigerator vendor:
Regarding the Danfoss fridge thing doing the rounds in the media - there’s several thousand of them that are directly internet facing.
The username is admin and the password changes every day automatically to.. the current date.
Every single one is like this. You can just log in and change the temperature. Anybody can do it, easily scriptable.
Published at
2026-10-12 19:37:13 UTCEvent JSON
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