Geeks and Chefs, Unite

ooglek writes: "You thought you had every gadget made, until this came along. The new Internet Fridge from LG Appliances. Not only does it keep your food from perishing, but it plays MP3s, TV, a list of the food actually in your fridge, a calendar, and, of course, recipes! Finished in Titanium. Wicked."

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Then one day...

[John Paul Jones]

You are out of mayonnaise, Dave. Why don't you buy more, Dave.

-JPJ

Overclockers

[boa13]

...have done that for a long time. I mean, putting a CPU inside a fridge... nothing new.

Oh, and can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?

What'll they think of next?

[JordanH]

Wow. A fridge that plays MP3s.

Next thing you know, they'll have a CPU that can cook a roast. Oh wait, Intel did that already - the Pentium 4 @ 2.53 GHz.

Re:it scans bar codes

[R2.0]

Screw that - I want one that scans bar codes when people pull something out...

Time: 10 years from now

Place: my house

Setting: my daughter's first night w/o adult supervision.

Rriing, rriing. "Hello?"

"This is Dad, how are you doing."

"Fine Dad - Just me and some girlfriends."

"Good. Well have fun, and don't stay up too late. Oh, and by the way, the fridge phoned me and said a few beers had been removed. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you."

"Errrr..."

Rest of the night spent looking for the phone cord/WiFi connection on the fridge. It doesn't exist - Dad was bluffing.

Now if I can only stay ahead of my kids on the geek curve.

Thnk that's funny?

[JaredOfEuropa]

I'll be waiting for the software upgrade with dietary and hygienic advice.

- "That chicken is really going bad... remove it, now, please."

- "Chicken wings again Dave? I am afraid I can't let you have those. How about a healthy salad?"

Sad thing is, I fully expect fridges of the future telling me off for having unhealthy eating habits.

I can see the BUGTRAQ advisory now...

[defile]

Homely SecuriCrack Teamz in coordination with the Culinary Institute of America Security Research Group has discovered a serious vulnerability in the LG Internet Refrigerator.

An unchecked buffer in FridgeScape 3.12, the web browser built into the user interface panel will, if exploited, allow malicious users to gain full superuser control of the refrigerator. From here, it's trivial to set the temperature of the fridge to spoil the food, shoot ice cubes out at high velocity, or set invalid parameters in the cooling unit causing the freon tank to rupture, turning your refrigerator into a 250lbs titanium shrapnel grenade.

The vendor was notified 6 months ago and again 3 months later but has not responded.

We recommend that all users run their home appliances behind a firewall and that extraneous features on other household appliances, such as Auto-Ironing and Mow-On-Demand be disabled

The unabomber was right. We're doomed.

The Internet-Enabled Fridge

[rocjoe71]

"Sorry, this fridge does not accept cookies. If you want this fridge to accept cookies, please adjust your security settings, close the door and try again."