Did Someone Just Hack Your Coffee Maker?

Did Someone Just Hack Your Coffee

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We have just come across another excellent reason to use a French press or traditional methods as with Turkish coffee.

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Computer World tells us about…





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when coffee makers attack.




http://www.computerworld.com/article/3135874/internet-of-things/when-coffee-makers-attack.html


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It was shocking to learn that the recent distributed denial-of-service attack of the nation’s internet infrastructure via DNS provider Dyn was aided and abetted by a hijacked army of products from the internet of things.





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It is thought to be the first DoS attack to rely overwhelmingly on a lot of “dumb” appliances that have little processing power of their own but are connected to the internet.





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That’s right, the internet was crippled because our coffee makers, washing machines and refrigerators were recruited to bring it down.





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Hackers managed to take control of more than 100,000 dumb devices like your coffee maker or even your toothbrush, although for the life of us we cannot fathom why a toothbrush would need internet access!





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Nevertheless the hackers pulled off a so-called denial of service attack by having 100,000 or so devices request access to the internet taking down an internet service company in the process.





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If someone just hacked your coffee maker what can you do? Here are three simple answers.





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Keep the Coffee Maker and Change Your Password





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If you bought a single serving coffee maker that you could access via you smart phone to start making the coffee as you are parking the car, maybe you want to keep the device.





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The answer then is to routinely change your username and password for the device.





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Read the instructions that came with the machine or contact the manufacturer if you need help.





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Because most of us are not storing nuclear weapons secrets or passwords to our bank account on the coffee maker we might have thought that no one cared.





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The quick answer is changing your password and username.





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French Press





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You really can make great coffee with a French press.




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A French press is a coffee pot, typically glass, with a fine wire mesh plunger. Coffee grounds are added to the pot followed by hot water.





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The coffee is allowed to steep for a few minutes and then stirred briefly.





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Then the plunger is pushed down through the coffee.





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The bulk of the grounds are pushed to the bottom of the pot.





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When you use a French press the coffee steeps just like tea.





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Because no filter is used you get the oils and particulate matter that contains so much of the aroma and flavor of the coffee.





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And the temperature of the coffee remains the same throughout the process until you pour into your coffee cup.





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This method does not involve computer chips, access to the internet, usernames or passwords. And it makes great coffee.





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Exotic Coffees





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We have written about different ways to make coffee from around the world.





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None of these involves the internet or passwords and usernames.





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For example, Turkish coffee can be fun to make and is delicious as well.




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Ibrik for Making Turkish Coffee





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Here is the short and sweet approach to making Turkish coffee.





/ When making coffee Turkish style grind the coffee beans

even finer than you would for making espresso.

Make Turkish coffee in a small pot with a cup of water

A small sauce pan will do although Turks use an ibrik (see image)

Add sugar

o Plain: no sugar

o Little sugar: add half a level teaspoon to the coffee

o Medium: add a level teaspoon to the coffee

o A lot of sugar: add two level teaspoons to the coffee





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remove from heat

Add coffee and stir until coffee sinks

o Some add a pod of cardamom as well (optional)





/ Heat again slowly until coffee boils and foam

appears on the top

o So not stir as this disturbs the foam

o Do not boil too long as prolonged boiling gives the coffee a burnt taste

o Remove from heat briefly and then heat again

o Repeat one more time





/ Pour coffee directly from the ibrik or your

sauce pan into demitasse cups similar to what you would use for espresso

Ideal Turkish coffee has a lot of thick foam (think of Cuban coffee) and the person who gets the cup with the most foam has the best coffee.




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Get back to the basics of making coffee and forget about internet access for your coffee maker.




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