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Over-the-air update bricks microwave ovens with bad firmware update. The future is stupid.

But it's not a stupid idea if the reason your microwave oven has WiFi is to deny you use of it for saying unapproved things or doing some wrongthink. Bad social credit score? No food for you! Smart Devices and IoT are how they sneak in technology to control every aspect of your life down to the most minute things. Don't get swept away by the IoT/Smart device propaganda. Fight the future, smash your IoT.

Over-the-air update bricks microwave ovens with bad firmware update. The future is stupid. But it's not a stupid idea if the reason your microwave oven has WiFi is to deny you use of it for saying unapproved things or doing some wrongthink. Bad social credit score? No food for you! Smart Devices and IoT are how they sneak in technology to control every aspect of your life down to the most minute things. Don't get swept away by the IoT/Smart device propaganda. Fight the future, smash your IoT.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Why can't you have some sort of... read only chip? That has the original, tested, working, firmware, that you can revert to.

It's those "tested" and "working" bits they never planned on actually having ready before time to market. Why invest all of that time and effort when the customer can be your QA and testing department? That's how these companies seem to operate now. I think Microshaft actually does operate this way.