Yes, there are commercial microwaves that read food package barcodes, look up the power settings and timings from a website, and run according to the stored directions.
http://madebynathan.com/2013/07/10/raspberry-pi-powered-microwave/ (home built but states commercially made microwaves available). On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> wrote: > Radoslaw, > > About whether your microwave is safe or not. Is it connected to the > internet? If so, it may be safe but other devices may not be because of it. > Does it have enough compute power and memory for somebody to remotely inject > code into it? Could this code then be used to send bogus requests to > somebody's server to "help" with a DDOS attack? That's where one of the > bigger vulnerabilities in this mess is. > > I know you're being tongue-in-cheek with the microwave comment, but reading a > couple articles about the guy who was able to remotely install the game > "Doom" on a printer and get it working shows some of the ways this thing > could be exploited. > > Rex > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of R.S. > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 8:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & > CVE-2014-7169 > > W dniu 2014-10-01 o 14:51, Dana Mitchell pisze: >> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:42:15 +0800, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> As for z/OS, most z/OS customers are likely to be unaffected. >>> >> IBM acknowledged that DS8000 HMCs currently utilize BASH and are thus >> vunerable. >> > What does it mean? Do you download & install any software on that? > My microwave owen has Linux onboard, unpatched, with bunch of > vulnerabilites. But the only thing I insert there is food. Is it safe? > :-) > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from > disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is > not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering > this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in > reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by > replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in > electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
