“Someone hacked my washing machine” is not the cyberpunk future we wanted.
My other computer is your washing machine
Can you run Doom on it?
It’s streaming the wash cycle. Please don’t block it, I watch that.
This is the only answer I would be ok with, streaming the wash cycle and absolutely nothing else.
Op from Jan:
https://x.com/Johnie/status/1744556503183585471
Most common theory is it was actually the guys asus router misreporting the data usage.
I bet the appliance was hacked and it’s part of a botnet
Probably not.
I work in home automation
There’s lots of educated idiots out there and lots of crap routers
My guess is that it is used bu LG to be part of a P2P net for LG content and firmware delivery for other LG products, especially TVs and phones
LG does not make phones anymore
LG Botnet Machine
Why is his washing machine connected to his router?
He did it, lmao.
Why am I wet?
~ man in pool
Last time this was mentioned I think the likely answer was that it was locked in a failed update loop. It would download a corrupted file, fail the update, then start the download again. All day, every day.
It’s a washing machine… Who the hell thought it needed an operating system!
We’ve been using washing machines for decades, successfully, that just used mechanical timers. Every so often you’d have to change out the timer or some belt sure to wear. It was cheap and easy to do.
It wasn’t. It was a display error on the router. It is mentioned in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984609
If that was a direct link, it didn’t work on mobile for me. But I found it:
In a follow-up post a day after his initial Tweet, Johnie noted “inaccuracy in the ASUS router tool.” Other LG smart washing machine users showed device data use from their apps. It turns out that these appliances more typically use less than 1MB per day.
Interesting, it’s all upload too. I’ve seen a “smart” device that just blasted out NTP packets to an unresponsive server in an infinite loop. I wonder if something like that is happening there too. That’s too much data for NTP though
Who’s the Manson lookalike in the pic background?
Ted Kaczynski, the “Unabomber”.
Thanks! Still don’t know why, but now I know who…
He was objectively highly talented guy but when he was in harvard The CIA tortured him and ran one of the most cruel “tests” on him called MK ULTRA.
and as expected it broke him he then spent rest of his life living in the woods and created bombs out everyday object and used USPS to ship them to government offices.
In his manifesto (yes he was a psycho serial bomber so he has a manifesto) he talked how we are enslaved by modern technology.
He was subjectively an untalented man but when he was at college the FBI kept prank calling him as part of a fun test, where they’d call him “Supafreak” and then hang up giggling.
As expected, this broke him and so he spent the rest of life downtown and created impressive art out of everyday junk and used DHL to ship them to company addresses.
In his tone poems (yes he was a psycho cereal muncher so he knows poetry) he scatted about how slavery could be a utopian vehicle.
😂😂😂
No problem. I’m with you on the why part.
Maybe just don’t connect it to the internet if that’s the only washing machine you have access to?
Probably bitcoin mining?
Most of these cheap routers don’t measure traffic properly
