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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have a new LG dishwasher, last month it sent a total of 2.7M up 1.2M down. When it’s on it does about 50KB up and 150KB down.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What do you think it's sending?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Status for time remaining, wash cycle, delayed start timers, rinse aid levels, etc. It also logs diagnostic info for the mechanics to help a tech troubleshoot a repair… Info about the heater, motor, temp sensor, etc.

I also see the occasional spike for tiny firmware updates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sending that to whom? Why is that information leaving your house? Do you want LG to know about your dishes? If it stayed inside the network, that would be one thing, but I wouldn't want information like that on the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The appliance status and logs are stored in the cloud so you can retrieved them when the appliance is off. Also the web is used for push notifications and for checking for firmware updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you use to track it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I’m not doing anything my CS professors would be proud of. I’m not digging into the services or anything, I’m just using the Thin Q app and seeing what statuses and logs it’s pulling back for the client UI.

Seems like something that could easily be 200K of network traffic to run and monitor the appliance’s cleaning session. Nothing looks alarming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you really think it takes that much data to send a small compressed json or xml file with just the pertinent data?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It doesn’t, but it’s also software being developed by a kitchen appliance devision, so I set my bar low.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

What do you think it's sending?

It's judging your underwear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This wash cycle is sponsored by jockey! Time for some new underwear. I can't wait to have to watch a 30 second unskipable ad to use an appliance I own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

that's the next step in the corporations' efforts to slap ads on everything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

My guess? It’s probably because the job listing for “Sr. Dishwasher Software Engineer” doesn’t exactly attract top talent.

Top tech companies don’t look at your resume and say “Bruh. This stallion worked on the LG dishwasher firmware?!”