>>>Something like that would be a halo/gee whiz feature useful for marketing purposes. Some of it might even be useful if properly implemented. But privacy and security seem to be the last issues addressed, if they're addressed at all.
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>As noted, I wonder whether Miele had an opportunity to set this up properly, or whether the researcher plugged it in himself and confirmed that security wasn't yet implemented.

Look, here we have a bunch of basically hardware guys, who were in relays and thick wires and electric motors, valves, springs and whatnot for about three generations now. And I'm not talking about appliances only - cars too. Just re-read our own threads for the last couple of years about all the car hacks. And now these guys are implementing web servers in their boxes. They still don't understand the nature, size and temperament of the beast they shoved under the hood. They only want to have a feature which sells and to reduce the cost. So they do it on the cheap, with obsolete off-the-shelf solutions.

I'm expecting more, not less of this in the near future.