Nest hacks
2019-04-24 16:42:31.66517+00 by
Dan Lyke
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How Nest, designed to keep intruders out of people’s homes, effectively allowed hackers to get in
Tara Thomas thought her daughter was just having nightmares. “There’s a monster in my room,” the almost-3-year-old would say, sometimes pointing to the green light on the Nest Cam installed on the wall above her bed.
Spoiler: She was right.
Security involves building multi-tiered systems which prevent compromise at several levels. This may involve not putting externally managed two-way AV systems in bedrooms.
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#Comment Re: Nest hacks made: 2019-04-24 20:57:39.520936+00 by:
Mars Saxman
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This whole home-spy-gadget trend has been kind of amazing; it feels like a slow-motion nightmare, happening in broad daylight, for no apparent reason. Why are people going along with it? I mean, suddenly it's become economical to manufacture snooper devices on a mass scale, so... companies do that, because people will build anything if there's a chance of profit. And then people buy them, by the millions, because... well, I'm not really sure why, to be honest. What is it people think they're getting with these devices? Even in their positive framing, they just seem like a lot of unnecessarily complicated hassle to me. But the consequences are obvious, and voila, they have all the problems you would expect from the very first moment someone first proposed an idea like this.
We can't even call it "unexpected consequences" at this point, because it was so *completely clear* that this kind of thing was necessarily going to happen...