Why “freezers” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
That is also likely true, i.e., misconfiguration, but this is not a "military freezers hacked" story, it is a story of many different controllers of many different refrigeration…
by tyrabound · Sep 1, 2026
To try to guess at a plausible answer, any monitoring / remote management stemmed from wanting to keep an eye on temps over time. Freezers can go out of temp for only so lo…
by pests · Sep 1, 2026
Or criminals (perhaps ransom not paid etc) or Kiddies for the lolz or US teen lashing out or any of the gazillion nationalist-aligned hackers who don’t like USA. But a misconfig…
by wood_spirit · Sep 1, 2026
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…
by b112 · Sep 1, 2026
Guam freezers and chillers were offline several times the years when I was there. You just didn't get milk, butter, eggs, ice cream, meat, etc those weeks.
by 0xWTF · Aug 31, 2026
First let's acknowledge that this could very easily be a misconfiguration issue. But, I'd be a lot more inclined to that idea if it wasn't for how they failed: they started a de…
by Zigurd · Aug 31, 2026
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A refrigerator, commonly shortened to fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the ambient temperature of the room. Refrigeration is an essential food storage technique around the world. The low temperature reduces the reproduction rate of bacteria, so the refrigerator lowers the rate of spoilage. A refrigerator maintains a temperature a few degrees above the freezing point of water. The optimal temperature range for perishable food storage is 3 to 5 °C. A freezer is a specialized refrigerator, or portion of a refrigerator, that maintains its contents' temperature below the freezing point of water. The refrigerator replaced the icebox, which had been a common household appliance for almost a century and a half. The United States Food and Drug Administration recommends that the refrigerator be kept at or below 4 °C (40 °F) and that the freezer be regulated at −18 °C (0 °F). Read more on Wikipedia