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M. Elizabeth
Personal blog · signalandsilence.substack.compoliticsculture
M. Elizabeth writes Signal and Silence, a personal blog at signalandsilence.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2026, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link M. Elizabeth's post speculating that US military commissary freezers were hacked to defrost, as a precedent for the later reports of European supermarket fridge shutdowns.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rabbit holes worth following. Power, policy, politics, human consequence, and whatever else I can’t stop thinking about. Independent investigations, probably-unwarranted analysis, overlooked connections, and questions that snowball. Click to read Signal and Silence, by M. Elizabeth, a Substack publi
Most-linked posts?
- I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2026-08-31
What Hacker News says?
Aug 28, 2026 https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack... I Think The Military Commissary’s Freezers Were Hacked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508506
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on “Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe”Submitted I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked as a story · 401 points
HN discussionThis article theorizing US Army freezers were hacked to defrost, from late August this year - only about six weeks ago! - is prescient. It was posted here on HN. https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack...
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on “Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe”This is pretty interesting as the Danfoss vulnerability was suspected to be related to a similar situation that occurred across US military bases in late August 2026. https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack... Could this be the same group? Or someone inspired by reading that article? Or just entirely unrelated?
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on “Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe”This feels unfair given this is clearly the work of the state actor what defrosted all them military freezers last month. https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack...
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on “Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges”Someone possibly did the same to US military freezers earlier this year: https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack...
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on “French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown”Interesting. The same sort of refrigeration failures happened at US military commissaries back in August. Link: https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack...
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on “French supermarkets suffer refrigerator shutdown after unprecedented cyberattack”There was the army commissary thing too: https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hack...
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on “Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before”