Meat tough & dry

How hackers are now also endangering your barbecue season

A "smoker" with Wi-Fi and an app not only promises perfectly cooked meat, but is also a real target for hackers.

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Fear is spreading among owners of luxury barbecues with Wi-Fi and app control: their cooking appliances are under threat from hacker attacks. If the attackers hijack the networked barbecue, they can ruin their victim's meal and thus their day in various ways. Krone+ knows how to protect itself.

Perfectly tender meat falling off the bone, juicy sausages, crispy chicken: for grill masters, the delicacies they create on the grill are almost a kind of calling card that their guests - ideally - rave about for months after the summer feast. They go to great lengths to achieve this fame - getting up early, cooking meat for hours over a low heat to achieve the perfect interplay of flavors and textures, monitoring the cooking point with a roasting thermometer. But if you have the wrong grill, hackers can mess everything up in the last few meters.