Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
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Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#2> Businesses like Starbucks are rolling out Azure Sphere to secure its store equipment, which feeds back data points on the type of beans, coffee temperature, and water quality for every shot of espresso.
I understand detailed feedback on huge multi-million dollar industrial machines where proactive maintenance based upon massive ML datapoints can save unexpected downtimes with millions in damage, but on coffee machines?!
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#3> Businesses like Starbucks are rolling out Azure Sphere to secure its store equipment, which feeds back data points on the type of beans, coffee temperature, and water quality for every shot of espresso. I understand detailed feedback on huge multi-million dollar industrial machines where proactive maintenance based upon massive ML datapoints can save unexpected downtimes with millions in damage, but on coffee machi…
You could subtly vary these factors remotely (and per shop), then use a customer feedback form per shop to see which one makes people most happy. Perhaps you could combine this with the hardness/composition of the water so you get the right coffee every time.
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#4Soooo much money, what a time to be a sec-expert!
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#5> Businesses like Starbucks are rolling out Azure Sphere to secure its store equipment, which feeds back data points on the type of beans, coffee temperature, and water quality for every shot of espresso. I understand detailed feedback on huge multi-million dollar industrial machines where proactive maintenance based upon massive ML datapoints can save unexpected downtimes with millions in damage, but on coffee machi…
If it means a guaranteed perfect cup of coffee then by all means why not? I hate when I go to a place I am used to getting decent coffee at and it comes out tasting terrible.
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#6> Businesses like Starbucks are rolling out Azure Sphere to secure its store equipment, which feeds back data points on the type of beans, coffee temperature, and water quality for every shot of espresso. I understand detailed feedback on huge multi-million dollar industrial machines where proactive maintenance based upon massive ML datapoints can save unexpected downtimes with millions in damage, but on coffee machi…
(1) Food safety issues could literally kill Starbucks
(2) Starbucks business depends on having those measurements for quality control
(3) Starbucks gets lots of vendor deals from partner companies because they are a well know brand and having them on board helps land more deals
(4) Hacker using the machines might be able to sabotage the stories; food poisoning, fires, etc
(5) The smarter the tech in store — less training required per employee on site.
(6) Starbucks has other plans for it, such as enabling customers to use their network for IoT devices
(6) etc.
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#7This reminds me about pentesters being jailed awhile ago.
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#8Soooo much money, what a time to be a sec-expert!
If you manage it in a day... Even if you take a month.
Problem with these kind of things is you never know how much time you're gonna spend. I was pretty active in this scene when I was going to University and had nothing better to do. But now I don't want to risk a month of my time and potentially end up with nothing. I guess people who compete in these things already have an exploit at hand to start with.
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#9Soooo much money, what a time to be a sec-expert!
Job-Security, meaning, its the Job of the Security to guide sec-experts to the exit, where they will be handed over to the police, for trying to break in, using a already known bug.
#FreeBlackHatsWithEveryFoundFlaw /s
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#10> Businesses like Starbucks are rolling out Azure Sphere to secure its store equipment, which feeds back data points on the type of beans, coffee temperature, and water quality for every shot of espresso. I understand detailed feedback on huge multi-million dollar industrial machines where proactive maintenance based upon massive ML datapoints can save unexpected downtimes with millions in damage, but on coffee machi…
I will offer an observation here: franchise production of food and drink relies upon homogeneity. Sometimes, people go out for something new, but often people want the same old thing. Someone across the country in a strange bed, where their accent sticks out, might want something familiar, and that is the experience of McDonald's in the United States. I could go from one corner of the country to another and the burgers would taste identical.
And so, people want replicable coffee drinks. And coffee can be a fickle beast to brew. Given that, unlike McDonald's which can freeze and ship, you must go from bean to drink on premise in a matter of minutes, I could see a focus on trying to ferret out a way to make that expensive cup taste the same from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine.