"Yes, Your Refrigerator Is Trying To Kill You…"
summary
Shows a concrete attack chain: compromise the home router, infer occupancy from smart bulbs, poison fridge firmware and cycle power to slowly spoil food. Cites implantables: a device vendor can push updates that change heart rate remotely and FDA upgrade processes block fixes. Recommends reproducible Linux-based builds (Yocto, OpenEmbedded), yocto-autobuilder and failover partitions for robust field upgrades, notes refrigerators last 14 to 16 years so manufacturers must enable community-maintained updates and audit the upgrade path end to end.
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