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-----
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> 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?
> :-)
>
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