I think the hate directed their way has more to do with the outsized claims of the founder, Jesse Lyu. For example, he claimed that you're buying a device with a "LAM" but it turned out to be playwright scripts wrapping APIs + OpenAI APIs, and the underlying action model was missing (or very nascent at ship). The team also took a lot of shortcuts security-wise and is getting wrecked for it now (it's not just one hole):

https://x.com/xyz3va/status/1805689140639408277

https://x.com/xyz3va/status/1805985433156759781 (this is the OP)

https://x.com/xyz3va/status/1805993239368860069

Doesn't help that he was shilling crypto right before rabbit. What people love about the form factor has mostly to do with Teenage Engineering's quirky design. Somehow Jesse is a board member there, it seems.

In general I don't recommend trusting their software. If you like the hardware, you can flash AOSP and use google assistant -- it's way more capable and AOSP isn't harvesting your credentials. https://github.com/RabbitHoleEscapeR1/r1_escape