Europe's smart fridges are being hacked. Why?

Europe's supermarkets are under cyber attack, with hackers targeting smart fridges and refrigeration systems. How has this happened, what impact might it have on food supply, and what else in our lives is hackable?

Plus, we look at Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s new app, BitChat, and why it’s going viral in France.

And after a major security problem was discovered in one of the web's most widely used infrastructure technologies (PHP), a whole lot of websites had to be taken down and patched. Could a similar vulnerability have the power to take down the whole internet?

GUESTS:

Kath Albury, Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology, and Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Phoebe Toups Dugas, Associate Professor of Human-Centred Computing at Monash University AKA the Trans Gamer Professor.

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This episode was produced on the lands of the Gadigal, Burramattagal, Darug, Gundungurra, and Wurundjeri peoples.

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