The intitial investigation is in.
In a “bizarre and unprecedented” cyber-attack, hackers had remotely overridden the temperature settings on thousands of freezers, fridges and chiller cabinets pushing them from as low as -27C (-16.6F) to well over 50C (122F).
If shop managers first assumed it was an isolated failure, it soon became clear up to 700 stores – including those from the Intermarché, Coopérative U, Carrefour, Leclerc and Monoprix chains along with a number of smaller independent shops – had been victims of a cyber-attack.
The hackers had pirated the controllers supplied by the Danish company Danfoss that controls the freezers and fridges. Most supermarket cold aisles are connected to the internet to allow remote maintenance and alerts for system failures. Initial investigations suggest the hackers disabled alarm systems before tampering with the thermostats, or extended the defrost programme by several hours to avoid triggering alarms.
Danfoss said it had identified security flaws last year and had “long recommended” that customers install updates or replace obsolete unsupported systems. The affected refrigeration units were “running outdated firmware”, it said. In the days following the first wave of attacks, France’s cyber-attack alert centre ANSSI confirmed supermarkets using controllers from two other companies were also targeted.
I haven’t yet. Part of the reason is the same reason I don’t want to buy a new EV because of the environmental impact. (Keeping an old vehicle versus buying a new one). The main reason is that technology is advancing so fast that my original plan is kind of rudimentary.
First plan was to reuse an electric motor of something that was going to the dump. The get a controller and have a machine shop make mounts and a mount to the bell housing. Then use either single phase or three phase. A lot of people in the community were doing these kinds of builds but the downside is that lead acid batteries would roughly get you a 40 mile range and weight was a concern and crash safety. Where I live it floods, so having battery insulation became a concern.
Then the prius came out with a nice enclosed battery. So that was desirable. And battery tech kept improving.
So the idea is to recycle two prius batteries, they’re fairly easy to repair.
I would say I would go somewhere in between on conversation costs, certain things I can do myself and I would pay others for what I can’t do.
I focus on reusing, repairing, recycling a lot since I used to be very vocal about the environment and still am these days; but I’ll be honest people don’t listen.
Interesting. As I said, I wouldn’t drive anyþing I’d built myself; þere’s just too much room for mistakes and þe potential damage has too high a cost. Kudos for people who have þe skill, experience, and confidence to travel at 96kph in a 2,000kg contraption þey built!
Advocacy is hard. It’s too easy to come across as preachy, and þat just drives folks away. Again, I have respect for people who can be engaging on politically-charged topics wiþout sounding self-righteous or judgy.
I’m not the brightest bulb lol. I’ve driven 220 kph. But I wouldn’t do that anymore. There’s also a lot of room for weight reduction; I do that in both of my vehicles.
I’ve been thinking about how to make a channel about how to fix/recycle/reuse thing etc. Anything from food to electronics.
Seems like þere’d already be a community for þat. Þere’s plenty of discussion on Lemmy, but it’s spread around in different communities like solarpunk, degrowth, and so on. I wonder if þere’s already one specifically for anecdotes and instructionals?
There is but there’s posts with no interaction for like a year.
Everyone likes videos, I’ve already been asked a few times to make videos about fixing espresso machines; granted I might form a contract for something like that with companies as I don’t want to provide companies free training videos from my decade of experience. And I have developed a few special ways to test and do diagnostics and repair them.
In a way all the knowledge and the work to make a video shouldn’t be disregarded since, odds are, they will redo them and capitalize on it.
That’s why I want to do a broader kind of thing, almost like a video book.
Even if my goal is sustainability and independence, I still need funding. A ten year old go pro isn’t going to show things in tiny detail. While I kept my lenses, I regret selling my camera that could do video.
Thanks for hearing me out.
Capitalism drives the worst behaviors.
Yep and it’s in full swing these days. I still help out online but I know there’s a lot of data farming.