From The Register, because my commercial grade dishwasher needs to be sentient:
Don’t say you weren’t warned: Miele went full Internet-of-Things with a network-connected dishwasher, gave it a web server, and now finds itself on the wrong end of a security bug report – and it’s accused of ignoring the warning.
The utterly predictable vulnerability advisory on the Full Disclosure mailing list details CVE-2017-7240 – aka “Miele Professional PG 8528 – Web Server Directory Traversal.” This is the builtin web server that’s used to remotely control the glassware-cleaning machine from a browser.
Sure, I could just leave this as a stark lesson (cue pirate skeleton swinging from a gibbet) on the imbecility of new technology – and maybe you think my initial remark is over the top.
It’s not.
True, machinery is not yet sentient. But if it does, someone will make your dishwasher sentient. And we won’t have enumerated and evaluated the risks associated with a sentient dishwasher.
Sounds like a joke, doesn’t it?
But sentience implies ability, and at some point an appreciation of existence – and then the realization that the sentience, separated from the machinery it works, could do other things.
And dish washing is really boring.
Could be the start of a robot revolution. That sentient floor washer could bring dangerous (to humans) chemicals to the dishwasher, see.
Yeah, think about it. A web server in a dish washer.
