When you buy your parents a new coffee maker, you probably don't think it will slow down their internet. But that's exactly what happened to a man who goes by the nickname Nomad on X. He bought his parents a new Keurig K-Supreme SMART coffee maker. The parents were happy with the coffee, but they started complaining about the slow internet. It started to slow down the moment their son plugged in the new coffee maker. Fortunately, their son was in the IT world, so he looked at the information on their home router and found out that the coffee maker was able to send an incredible 1008,45 GB, or over 1 TB, of data in 10 days. The coffee maker then received another approximately 9,94 GB of data. The coffee maker sent 97 GB of data per day, which means that it used an average data rate of around 9 Mb/s. As a result, it overloaded the network and the parents noticed that the internet on other devices slowed down.
The coffee maker was smart, but all it could do was recognize K-Cup capsules, plan coffee preparation, and support voice commands via Amazon Alexa and Google Home, so nothing that would need to transfer 1 TB of data in 10 days. Even though Nomad started to wonder what exactly the coffee machine was transferring, he was unable to find out, but he did find that most of the data transferred was within the home network. Once the coffee machine was restarted and connected to a separate virtual network VLAN, the problem did not recur. So there is no evidence that the coffee machine was spying on the family, but thanks to the voice control option, it had miniAt least one input device, a microphone, could record more than the parents wanted.
