Smart Coffee Machine Consumes 1,000GB of Data in Just 10 Days
An IT professional discovered that a connected Keurig coffee machine consumed a staggering 1,000GB of data over a 10-day period. This massive data usage significantly outpaced other smart home appliances, such as a washing machine that only recorded 3.6GB of traffic. The incident highlights the unexpected data demands of modern 'smart' kitchen appliances, raising questions about why such devices require internet connectivity and how they manage network traffic. The findings serve as a cautionary tale for users integrating internet-connected devices into their home networks, demonstrating that even simple household appliances can become surprisingly heavy data users.
neither of these machines need to be connected to the internet to begin with...
Just last week my phone suddenly asked if I wanted to connect my dryer. To what? TO WHAT I ASK YOU
The internet just made it easy for thieves to steal from you.
its also use 1.000000000000000000000000000GB sometime
Quit whining, people buying this demented "connected" crapola have only themselves to blame.
one explanation downloads coffee and water from Internet
crypto mining?
a real IT pro would not be: 1. shocked 2. connecting his coffee machine to the internet
Bit more context for ya'll: The guy who found this also discovered the vast majority of traffic never left the local network, so his best theory is it hit some networking bug and started absolutely hammering the Wi-Fi access point with traffic. After a reboot and moving it onto a
Why should I want my coffee maching connected to internet tho?