[2] This functionality is partly managed by human involvement,[clarification needed] but proposed future iterations of the technology incorporate inventory tracking for all items inside, along with a seamless payment system.
For commercial use, additional features such as payment terminals and locks could be incorporated to manage tasks like unattended retail.
[5] In January 2014, the California security firm Proofpoint, Inc. announced that it discovered a large “botnet” which infected an internet-connected refrigerator, as well as other home appliances, and then delivered more than 750,000 malicious emails.
[6] In August 2015, security company Pen Test Partners discovered a vulnerability in the internet-connected refrigerator Samsung model RF28HMELBSR that can be exploited to steal Gmail users' login credentials.
[7] In late 2014, several owners of Internet-connected Samsung refrigerators complained that they could not log into their Google Calendar accounts, after Google had discontinued the calendar API earlier in the year and Samsung failed to push a software update for the refrigerator.