Why wrestle with connecting your phone directly to your home devices through some ad hoc networking, when you can simply attach everything to a [highly insecure] central server and have a simple app that basically amounts to a little more than an HTTP request.
Plus when you shut down your back end services, all your old customers are fucked and have to buy new products.
The backend security bug effectively exposed an army of internet-connected robots that, in the wrong hands, could have turned into surveillance tools..
Or one might argue that a 7,000-strong node comprised of all manner of deep-seeded surveillance hardware was purpose-built to be a surveillance tool.
(I mean for shits sake how often do we accidentally stumble across a network like that? Even PRISM is turned on right now.)
Robot vacuums do NOT need to communicate with a cloud server
The cloud is a trap
Run away
Why wrestle with connecting your phone directly to your home devices through some ad hoc networking, when you can simply attach everything to a [highly insecure] central server and have a simple app that basically amounts to a little more than an HTTP request.
Plus when you shut down your back end services, all your old customers are fucked and have to buy new products.
Man Finds Out He Sucks 7000 Times More Than Other People
This could have you been your headline slashdot but you let it get away!
The backend security bug effectively exposed an army of internet-connected robots that, in the wrong hands, could have turned into surveillance tools..
Or one might argue that a 7,000-strong node comprised of all manner of deep-seeded surveillance hardware was purpose-built to be a surveillance tool.
(I mean for shits sake how often do we accidentally stumble across a network like that? Even PRISM is turned on right now.)
"For 20 years I've tried to no avail to get him to run just ONE vacuum cleaner ONCE! Now he's running 7,000 across the globe? I quit!"