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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 hours ago

Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

www.dexerto.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 hours ago
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Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days - Dexerto
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The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.
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    Those are rookie numbers.

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    Why does a coffee machine need access to the internet?

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      How else is the company supposed to brick it remotely?

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    Even spying on you, it doesn’t need that much data. That sounds like a failed something that keeps retrying without a proper back off.

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