All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @06:19PM from the pouring-over-it dept.

Wolf nipple chips writes "Craig Wright discovered that the Jura F90 Coffee maker, with its honest-to-God Jura Internet Connection Kit, can be taken over by a remote attacker, who can cause the coffee to be weaker or stronger; change the amount of water per cup; or cause the machine to require service (call this one a DDoC). 'Best yet, the software allows a remote attacker to gain access to the Windows XP system it is running on at the level of the user.' An Internet-enabled, remote-controlled coffee-machine and XP backdoor — what more could a hacker ask for?"

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Check with the Internet Engineering Task Force by JakartaDean · 2008-06-17 20:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

Well, I hope someone is checking whether this thing is truly RFC 2324 compliant.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

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