There are much worse possible outcomes than spoiled food. “App-controlled” smart ovens are now all the rage. Even if there are safety measures to prevent remotely burning down your house, what fraction of ovens in a community do you need to simultaneously preheat to bring down the entire electrical grid? Probably not too many. The grid is designed for small and continuous changes in demand, not large and coordinated changes due to an IoT attack. Once the grid is down, it can take a long time to bring back up due to a lack of investment in black start capacity.
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/09/06/madiot-home-appliances-power-grids/ Qt Co. is in for quite the surprise when new regulations are introduced and Agile development/subscription toolkit licensing are driven out of the IoT market. But is current management capable of looking that far ahead? From: Interest <interest-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Roland Hughes Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 7:44 AM The Wild Wild West days of IoT are coming to a hard close. It's not just the DDOS attacks. With connected refrigerators, hackers can turn the things off while people are at work (post pandemic) and spoil the majority of food in a city the size of Chicago, New York, LA, etc. If they choose to do it in every major city at once it leads to massive food insecurity.
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