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Bad Smart Watch Authentication

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Re: Bad Smart Watch Authentication

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I wish there was a concept of paid expert reviews on Amazon/everywhere. A general review system works well (ignoring review gaming) when your concern is "Does this shirt fit?" or "What's the build quality?", but fails when one expert review of "This device is fundamentally unsound," gets drowned out by reviews on the more easily testable aspects ("The band is really comfortable!"). A great example would be when Benso…

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Re: Bad Smart Watch Authentication

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We need to use Unicode steganography to hide the message "this smartwatch sucks" into an innocent-looking review.

How does this help anyone?

The suggestion is that negative reviews are suppressed. Communicating a negative review through a facially positive review would help avoid that.

Re: Bad Smart Watch Authentication

#16

now if one could do some reverse engineering on Garmin watches and enable an opensource alternative to Garmin Connect, that would be marvellous.

Garmin watches are partially supported by Gadgetbridge [1]. I have not used it, but it seems to at least support basic data for many Garmin watches.

[1] https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/wearables/garmin/

Re: Bad Smart Watch Authentication

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I wish there was a concept of paid expert reviews on Amazon/everywhere. A general review system works well (ignoring review gaming) when your concern is "Does this shirt fit?" or "What's the build quality?", but fails when one expert review of "This device is fundamentally unsound," gets drowned out by reviews on the more easily testable aspects ("The band is really comfortable!"). A great example would be when Benso…

Isn’t amazon vine paid review?

Vine is compensated with free products to review, but I don’t think they’re paid beyond that.

They are also not experts, generally.

Re: Bad Smart Watch Authentication

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now if one could do some reverse engineering on Garmin watches and enable an opensource alternative to Garmin Connect, that would be marvellous.

I would love to be able to update firmware on my garmin watch, but I think that's all tied up in connect (which I don't use) somehow.
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