Eavesdropping air fryers ‘sending data to China’

Air fryers may be serving up a side of surveillance with your chicken and chips.

Mark Sellman, The australian (don't read it)

Among other tested devices, the Huawei Ultimate smartwatch was classed as giving invasive access to parts of someone’s phone, including precise location, the ability to record audio, access to stored files and the ability to see all the other apps installed.

It's a smart watch, what is a smart watch for if not connecting to your mobile?

The australians on an anti china spree at the moment, below is a scary photo from last week: secret footage from inside a wine store in Wuhan! 😱

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  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    Why would you ever buy a fucking kitchen appliance that’s connected to the internet in the first place?

    • Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 days ago

      Perhaps for easy scheduled start, eg. you prep the food and remote start it as you're about to go home so that you have warm food by the time you get home

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        16 days ago

        Might work in a super cold place, but I feel like leaving food out in Australia like that would be pretty risky.

        Could work with preheat, I guess

      • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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        16 days ago

        I really question this. Unless your food is very, very frozen (deep in the freezer for days) and dense and has enough water to keep it frozen and cold for like 8+ hours without serious risk of bacteria growth and toxins being produced leaving food in a place like that all day seems like a recipe for disaster. Certainly I wouldn't do it for frozen cut up tofu or meat. I suppose if you work in a way that allows you to come home for lunch that might allow it to work but most Americans don't. (CDC says I believe 4 hours is the maximum frozen food that needs to be cooked should be left in the danger zone above freezing/refrigeration temps but below 160+ degrees F)

        Given the ideal way to use an air fryer is to expose the contents to the air to get the full benefits of convection cooking which also thaws them more quickly and lets bacteria proliferate or get in it just seems like a poor candidate for it. And if you're doing something like a side like fries that are probably safe to leave all day you still have to make the main meal and fries take like 5 minutes so I question the utility of saving yourself waiting that little time with such a function.

        All in all modes like that, remote start works for things like washing machines or clothes driers or coffee machines or pre-heating a conventional oven given that unlike an air fryer can take 10+ minutes.

        I think the more likely explanation is it's just more IOT connected nonsense. People buy it, it sells so it gets made and the manufacturers can off-set the costs by selling data profiles on what time people eat meals by gathering that data as well as types of modes used and how long to for example identify people who have midnight snacks or meals, those who work off hours, etc.