A smart coffee maker burned through 1TB of data in just 10 days
Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
An IT professional known as Nomad checked his parents' home network and found their smart coffee maker had generated 1TB of traffic in 10 days, mostly staying on the local network but still saturating their Wi-Fi access point. He suspects a bug in the unit and has decided the device isn't worth keeping connected, calling it a learning experience for his parents.
It's not worth keeping an IOT device connected that has the capability of bugging out and causing saturation like this did.
- altairprime
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.
- BLKNSLVR
So, separate VLANs, wifi isolation and complete internet blocking for all devices such as this, and only purchase devices that can be controlled via Home Assistant.
What hope do normies have?
- tintor
Why does a coffee machine need internet?
- sam-cop-vimes
This website values your privacy. Only shares data with 1747 partners.
- jakub_g
The real question is: could someone explain me why anyone would want a smart coffee maker?
What kind of functions it has that can't be replaced by:
- walking a few meters and pushing a physical button
- waiting a whopping minute for coffee to brew, instead of triggering it remotely
- altern8
Can someone explain to me what kind of data it collects, and what value could that data have to advertisers or anyone else?
- ttytty
It's so important to have a dedicated VLAN (or 2.4g SSID) for IoT devices and block access to your regular VLAN/SSID or enforce some more granular rules on what devices can communicate with each other.
Most non-ancient routers/gateways support this. There are way too many IoT devices running code that's _worse_ than what older LLMs produce.
- matthewmcg
Wow, maybe this is the push I need to finally set up an isolated "IOT" VLAN at my home.