China may be spying on you through your coffee maker, expert says

[Nan Yang]

Published June 15, 2022 11:47am EDT​

China may be spying on you through your coffee maker, expert says​

Experts say China already has reams of data on every American​

By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News

China may be using software inside smart coffee makers to spy on owners of the devices, according to a report.

Internet-connected coffee makers that are made in China are just one of many ways China can gather data, according to American researcher Christopher Balding. Balding released a report specifically on the Kalerm machines manufactured in Jiangsu, China.

"China is really collecting data on really just anything and everything," Balding told the Washington Times. "As a manufacturing hub of the world, they can put this capability in all kinds of devices that go out all over the world."

Internet-connected coffee makers are just one of many ways China can gather data, according to one researcher. (iStock)

Closeup espresso coffee machine. Automatic coffee maker with cup of cappuccino domestic household appliances

"Coffee machine data may seem rather mundane, but as with many aspects of data, risks exist in how the data is used," the report reads, adding that the machines will collect payment data in commercial settings as well as time and location data even in domestic settings.

"If all information was compiled it would allow information on the name of the user, relative location, and usage patterns," the report says.

China has numerous ways it can and already does gather data on average Americans. Matthew Pottinger, a former deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump, testified to Congress last year that China already has enough data to assemble a "dossier" on every American.

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31 : Matthew Pottinger, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor listens during a briefing with members of President Trump's Coronavirus task force in the briefing room at the White House on Friday, Jan 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"Assembling dossiers on people has always been a feature of Leninist regimes, but Beijing’s penetration of digital networks worldwide, including using 5G networks… has really taken this to a new level," Pottinger told a Senate panel in August 2021.

"So, the Party now compiles dossiers on millions of foreign citizens around the world, using the material that it gathers to influence, target, intimidate, reward, blackmail, flatter, humiliate, and ultimately divide and conquer," he added. "Beijing’s stolen sensitive data is sufficient to build a dossier on every single American adult and on many of our children too, who are fair game under Beijing’s rules of political warfare."

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China may be spying on you through your coffee maker, expert says

China is capable of using Chinese-manufactured smart coffee makers to gather data on Americans who purchase the internet-connected devices, according to a report.

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[mudas777]

Americans are scared of their own shadows and suffering with the Chinese phobia.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

This looks more like a quick 5th grade homework assignment than a research paper

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https://newkitedata.com/s/Coffee-Machines.pdf

Chinese Data Collection on
Internet of Things Connected Devices:
The Case of Smart Coee Machines
By:
Christopher Balding
And
Joe Wu

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No coffee machine models specified.

 

[etylo]

Really paranoid mongers.

 

[Yaoudelizard]

China is spying on you with your coffee maker as you read this on a phone that’s made in China by a person that typed this up on a computer that’s made in China. Warning people that China spies on you while continuing to give China more data. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry at how smart Americans are.

 

[Finer]

That doesn’t change the fact that before them; google, Amazon, apple, and all the collection data companies are already spying and gathering information on us.

Even Tesla is no longer the car - it is collection data machine.

 

[Splurgenxs]

That doesn’t change the fact that before them; google, Amazon, apple, and all the collection data companies are already spying and gathering information on us.

Even Tesla is no longer the car - it is collection data machine.

its just one layer of the construct ,and god sits at the top.

 

[KAL-EL]

I recently overclocked my coffee maker.

Temps are holding steady.

 

[jhungary]

I once got drunk and pee in my coffee maker, I hope they know what my pee were like.....

 

[Azadkashmir]

i tell you who is: i spy with my lil eye, = operation talpiot

 

[silverox]

Matthew Pottinger ，When him as the Wall Street Journal reporter was working in China, it coincided with a period of great development of social media in China, and anti-establishment people in China made full use of social media to spread the idea of to overthrow the CCP. Matthew Pottinger is deeply involved in social events triggered by social media in China. In a social gathering event, Matthew Pottinger, who was overactive and involved in domestic conflicts in China, was slapped in the face by a security guard in China. This shamed Matthew Pottinger, who quit his job as a journalist and joined the U.S. military in his 30s to take part in the war in Iraq.
This man seems to want to fight China, and the slap in the face by the Chinese security guard should have been harder