This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. The only reason I can conceive to really need network connectivity is to monitor temp, and there's zero reason to have that hooked into power, on/off, whatever.

Having remote on/off capability, or even the ability to set temperatures for freezers remotely is just so insanely idiotic, I don't get it. Why even have the path? If the temp is wrong, go investigate.

This is such a colossal non-problem. The risk is now, at the start of a war action base supplies could be made unusable.

One of the big current risk scenarios is, all smart cars, all meat packing plants, all industrial capacity, all phones, all internet, all interrupted at precisely the same time. A multi-pronged hack, right at the start of the war.

Imagine all electric cars bursting it flames in garages as they charge overnight. Conjoined with all cell phones, network connectivity, and landlines going out. And 911 call centres.

So now you have a fire raging, the fire department doesn't even know, and if it wanted to respond? There's 4 fires on every suburban block.

Within a few hours, a large portion of the populous now has no housing.

That's just from two simple hacks, communication and electric cars.

The society of always-on-connected is just dumb, stupid, insane, and has threat-results worse than some nuclear exchange scenarios.

And there will never, ever, ever be secure software. Ever. Never going to happen, ever. No rust, no this or that, no AI help, will ever, ever, ever secure software. Ever.

And how do I know this?

Because 50 years later, I've seen software just as buggy, insecure, as it always has. Anyone thinking "oh, we can just do this thing! And then software will be safe" is a loon, it'll never ever happen.

And that means?

Nothing important should ever be network connected, ever.

So why would any yahoo think remote control capacity on a freezer is sane?