Also be careful with all Philips air purifiers that support Wi-Fi, because the remote control feature cannot be disabled. They create a Wi-Fi hotspot that you need to connect to with a smartphone to finish setting up the device, but if you don't use these features, the air purifier will create a permanent Wi-Fi hotspot, waiting to be exploited.
Home assistant picked up my neighbours Bluetooth toothbrush and now I can see when they brush their teeth.
https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1306pcw/home...
The weird thing is I complained to the company's CSR people online and they had no idea why the battery was so bad and just told me to try and factory hard reset the phone as there must be something I changed in the settings.
I switched over to Polar and now the watch I have lasts 5 days on a single charge - quit the change from about a day or less.
Sure, my top-end Fenix 6 Pro cost $750 new in 2019, and very little of that is hardware BOM (there's a lot of price segmentation), but it's still just as good as it was then. It's honestly extremely refreshing to deal with a company and an app that tries to build and sell good hardware rather than tricking you into a subscription.
I uncovered a cheap digital watch in the cupboard the other day. It hasn't been in use since it's strap broke at least four years ago. It is still keeping time. Poorly, granted. It is off by half an hour, Then again, it is the type of watch that needs updating twice or thrice a year to account for DST and leap years.
I realize that modern watches are much more than timepieces, but the difference is battery life is astounding.
Great company though, it's not like they had the choice to not buy out one of the best CPAP manufacturers and then skimp out on materials until they hit the cancer recall margin of diminishing returns (and then hide it for as long as possible).
If the hardware is fail safe I guess it can waste electricity.
To be able to... know if your target's house has a lot of pollutants? Is particularly warm? There is practically no useful information that can't be gleamed by just looking through their windows, blinds and all.
> and the device could also be used as a hopping point for exploiting other devices in your home.
It's not connected to your home network, that's the whole reason for the hotspot existing. How, exactly, could it be used as a hopping off point, except to other devices with hotspots that... can just be exploited in the first place.
Please, explain exactly what sensor fusion would get you actionable data out of the PM2.5 sensor and "gas sensor" in a Philips smart air purifier.
I mean, sure, but who is going to do that when they can... look to see when people are home.
If the burglar only takes a 30 second look before breaking in, residents could be home but away from a window, with this the burglar can more confidently know when is a good time to break in, without exposing themselves to the same risk that looking around the house brings.
It's not even far fetched, smart watches reporting physical actively at unexpected hours have revealed infidelity in the past.
Stuxnet also sounded like a completely made up scenario.
As someone said, you lack imagination. And that’s OK, but you’re also being quite arrogant, too.
I have plenty of imagination. I also am practical and realize how illogical the argument of “sensor fusion” is to do something you can just use your eyes for.
Nobody is going to go out of their way to do this when KISS methods already exist and y’all don’t seem to understand practicality if you don’t see that.
Have a colorful switch to enable it, whatever.
But poor security posture out of the box, for a questionably-supported, poorly-developed, long-lived physical device seems important enough to mandate slight one-time inconvenience.
In the future, this bullshit is going to be looked back at like default passwords on ISP WAPs.