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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)

submitted 8 months ago by minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] sramder@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

For now, it looks like the favored answer to the data mystery is to blame Asus for misreporting it. We may never know what happened with Johnie, who is now running his LG washing machine offline.

Another relatively innocent reason for the supposed high volume of uploads could be an error in the Asus router firmware. In a follow-up post a day after his initial Tweet, Johnie noted “inaccuracy in the ASUS router tool.” Other LG smart washing machine users showed device data use from their apps. It turns out that these appliances more typically use less than 1MB per day.

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

1 MB per day is more than enough to phone home.

The title seems like clickbait tho.

[–] sramder@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Yes. Also yes.

I remember when Tom’s hardware was one German dentist and washing machines were to primitive to pick up a phone… you’d think they’d have done something cool by now like make them fold our clothes for us. The future is lame.