Monsieur Cuisine Connect: Cut the utensil in French

Cologne –

While Lidl was selling a Thermomix competitor in its branches a few days ago, customers have been torn around devices, according to media reports. But customers of significantly cheaper kitchen appliances have apparently paid with insufficient security. Technology experts warn of the serious flaws of "Mr. Connect Kitchen".

A Thermomix costs around 1300 euros, while Lidl's clone product for 359 has been sold without a prescription. Currently, you can not buy the device with a touch screen, depending on the manufacturer, it is exhausted.

Lidl: the microphone is not active

But the two French Alexis Viguie and Adrien Albisetti have, according to the technical website Androitpit, discovered a security flaw in the devices: the kitchen appliance is equipped with a microphone. But this is not mentioned in the manual. Because the microphone is not necessary, the product has no voice control.

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According to the French media, Lidl said the microphone was not active. But this superfluous technology in the Thermomix clone can pose a risk to the safety of users. In the worst case, if their privacy is protected, both French are shown in their video. If the kitchen appliance is connected to the wireless LAN, hackers can access "Mr. Kitchen Connect".

For example, Alexis Viguie and Adrien Albisetti are watching Youtube videos on the touch screen of the device and even the video game "Doom" can be read on the kitchen appliance. The video of the two is in French, but you can understand it without linguistic knowledge.

Obsolete operating system makes possible attacks

The favorable competitor of Thermomix is ​​equipped with an Android operating system – "Android 6 Marshmallow". This software was unveiled by Google in 2015 and its security is blatant since 2017. Anyone who knows the operating system rather outdated and has the necessary skills can use security loopholes to get into the device of the company. 39; outside. The two French have finally succeeded, as the video proves.

The "smart" device shows that you should not only look at the price but also the security aspects. Users of "Monsieur Cuisine Connect" should better, after what Alexis Viguie and Adrien Albisetti have discovered, do not connect to the Wi-Fi network. (Rh)