Certain tasks have to be done on a periodic basis, like replacing/cleaning filters. ‘…hacked through [insert name of IoT device would assume that fish tanks are maintained by an outside agency, and a big selling point would be to handle the maintenance ‘automatically’ (with casino security only having to provided access). My guess is that if they are fool enough as to connect a huge IoT device to the casino’s main network (a IoT device is not necessarily small and lightweight!) they must have a lot of other exploitable mistakes on their network right now. Networking the entire thing and, even worse, connecting it to the main network used by the casino is not a clever idea.Ī small computer should be able to take the same corrective actions as a big and unsecurely networked one and, if the only action possible is sending an email to the fish tank maintainer, a similar goal may be achieved by displaying a few tips on a LCD display near the tank.
The idea of controlling a fish tank using a small computer and sensors is fine, but I would have choosen a small low-power computer (a Raspberry Pi, a Beaglebone, an Arduino…) running a simple operating system (a small BSD or Linux) to monitor it.
Don’t know about the operating system, but it seems there was not a Puffy in the fish tank!
