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Disconnecting is also effective. Fridges don’t need to be on the internet.

That's not clear. Perhaps the savings made by having connected fridges over the year has offset the hacking event waste, so overall it could still be worth it. Now they need to apply security patches, and possibly only use the connection for monitoring (read-only) and have a kind of "2FA" / physical presence required when sending commands from the web

What savings?

Not having to pay some token fine multiplied by however many times your employees didn't perfectly pencil whip the temp checks in the 3yr record retention period when you sell some bad fish and get audited as part of the investigation into that.

Not having to pay extra employees to maintain the fridges I guess

Shifting when they consume electricity to take advantage of price differences during the day?

I would think that might have an impact on the temperature inside said fridges.

Yes, fridges don't have constant temperatures anyway. So you can shift when they run around a bit.

Yes they do if you operate a massive national chain and would like to minimize deadly health incidents due to avoidable human error.

Europe doesn't need to continue using fax machines and bury its head in the sand.

There's also the option to adopt digital technology and just not be an idiot about it this time since the price of intelligence is now effectively 0.

Or, France can continue preventing any productivity increases from technology and watch its social systems continue to collapse.

They don't need to be on internet. They just need to be available remotely. Simple VPN would've solved the issue entirely (...well, up to the moment when they won't update that, but updating VPN is far cheaper than commercial refrigerator controller I'd imagine)

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