{"id":8780,"date":"2017-03-28T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8780"},"modified":"2017-03-28T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:00:37","slug":"news-that-should-be-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/28\/news-that-should-be-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"News That Should Be A Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

From The Register<\/b><\/i>, because my commercial grade dishwasher needs to be sentient<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 and<\/i> it’s accused of ignoring the warning.<\/p>\n

The utterly predictable vulnerability advisory<\/a> on the Full Disclosure mailing list details CVE-2017-7240 \u2013 aka “Miele Professional PG 8528 – Web Server Directory Traversal.\u201d This is the builtin web server that’s used to remotely control the glassware-cleaning machine from a browser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure, I could just leave this as a stark lesson (cue <\/i>pirate skeleton swinging from a gibbet) on the imbecility of new technology – and maybe you think my initial remark is over the top.<\/p>\n

It’s not.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Sounds like a joke, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And dish washing is really boring.<\/p>\n

Could be the start of a robot revolution. That sentient floor washer could bring dangerous (to humans) chemicals to the dishwasher, see.<\/p>\n

Yeah, think about it. A web server in a dish washer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u2013 and it’s accused of ignoring the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}