Now that it’s finally plugged in again. I just finished moving the socket I had wired up further to the right so I could put one of the cabinets I pulled out during installation next to it. Which necessitated making the cabinet structurally sound, because these cabinets are crap. Which required shoring up and leveling the counter. Before which I had to pull the new sink out again and remount it correctly.
Why in the world would a dishwasher need firmware?
The latest firmware tells the manufacturer what you ate, and with how many you where. Now it can also discuss with the fridge the vitamins and calories you had and determine together what needs to be in stock.
Possibly to patch the security vulnerability they didn’t tell you about. Which could, in theory, prevent your dish washer from mining bitcoin after it was comprised.
To operate the hardware. We’ve had firmware as long as we’ve had electronics.
The real question is: Why does a dishwasher need to be connected to the internet? That just opens it up to all sorts of online threats and creates more problems than it solves.
Like that one time a chemical plants internal systems were hacked through a coffee machine.
If it’s connected, it can be hacked. All you need is an Internet connection and some skill.
Speaking as a professional: if the chemical plant itself was hacked through a coffee machine, then several other people have already thoroughly fucked the Swiss cheese and the entire IT infrastructure needs to be audited. Devices in a public area should NEVER have been allowed to talk to production machines in the first place.
Yeah, it sounds like it was a disaster waiting to happen.
A casino was hacked by via an aquarium thermometer
https://thehackernews.com/2018/04/iot-hacking-thermometer.html
About the connection to the internet… Eh I’ve got no idea. But if your home starts the dishwasher when the pv delivers enough power or the battery is full then it’s useful. That doesn’t need to be public to the internet or an connection to the outside. Just an open API.
To get instructions from your refrigerator that is already part of a botnet.
So they can introduce monthly subscriptions?
… To update the firmware if course!
You might ask why do you need to update the firmware , well to fix vulnerabilities from being connected to the internet.