@Lily_and_frog
As someone who spent half his adult life working in the service industry... No one is manually checking those fridge temperatures, ever. Doesn't matter if it's the soda cooler in a shop's impulse buy gauntlet, or a meat storage walk-in.

The only person who looks at the thermometers is the health inspector, right before they hand you a violation notice because your prep fridge's condenser has had it's airflow so choked with dust buildup that it's been unable to get the temperature below 55° F despite the compressor running non-stop for months.

@Zamfr @Aedius @bremner @GossiTheDog

@Lily_and_frog @Aedius @bremner
Its typically a few chillers on the roof (with their conpressors), some distribution pipes and valves, a series of cold units with their individual temp control units, some logging and alarms, a little network between them.

Its not crazy difficult and usually keep working but there is enough that sometimes something breaks, or a setting goes wrong, etc.

@Lily_and_frog @Aedius @bremner its then very useful if a manager can pick up the phone, and someone looks at it remotely, identify the problem, perhaps fix it, or directly send maintenance with the right replacement components.

Quite often, that works even without the manager having to pick up the phone.

It means stuff gets fixed quicker, than if you first have to wait for someone to do diagnosis

how does patched/unpatched fit in? How does it matter when no exploit was used?

Or did I miss something?

@cdlhamma What gets me about this “hack” have they never heard of VPNs?

You would hope in 2026 nobody is working in IT that thinks surfacing anything especially critical to the entire web is a good idea much less that they would work for a major retailer 🤦‍♂️