Sci/Tech All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us

[enouwee]

The Jura connectivity kit uses the connectivity of the PC it is running on to connect the coffee machine to the internet. This allows a remote coffee machine "engineer" to diagnose any problems and to remotely do a preliminary service. It also has a few software vulnerabilities.

Fun things you can do with a Jura coffee maker:

1. Change the preset coffee settings (make weak or strong coffee)
2. Change the amount of water per cup (say 300ml for a short black) and make a puddle
3. Break it by engineering settings that are not compatible (and making it require a service)

Found via SlashDot. Read on...

 

[AceHart]

> Compromise by Coffee

Brilliant

Though, yes, this could be just The Thing(tm).
(Reminds me of that ages old plan to get a webcam near the machine...)

 

[UnknowVector]

At last people's fascination with stupid non-digital appliances (I'm looking at you USB coffee heater) hooked up to computers has broken the sacred software-hardware barrier.

We. Are. All. Going. To. Be. Killed. By. Crackers.

 

[tom_mai78101]

I am a cracker, *crackling*

 

[Prometheus]

I'd love to hack one of these and make it malfunction, then when its being fixed make sure all the issues are fixed. Screwing with peoples minds.

 

[juty]

LAWL KC you have an evil mind but i agree make them have a bad name

 

[Flare]

lol, that's pretty cool. Now we just need a way of making coffee on the internet and we can take over the world, somehow, through the unstoppable power of coffee and internet

(I'm looking at you USB coffee heater)

What about the USB humping dog (link), USB pole dancer (link) and the USB missile launcher (link). Are they not stupid enough for you? ^^