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I must have missed the part in the Nest manual where they told you to expect complete strangers to be able to watch you and speak to you through it.
Actually, that is in the manual. That's a feature of the product. You can watch and speak through it. Just because a stranger got your password from an unrelated security breach to Nest, doesn't make it Nest's fault. They have the tools available, and even encourage you in the setup process to setup 2-factor (I just recently set one up). Outside of that, this is user error, in my opinion. Nothing was "hacked" on Nest…
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#74Why is this low quality fear mongering Fox news post on the top page of HN? There is no evidence of "hacking" here, and Nest's official response was that the person had a poor or breached password. I get that this would be a nightmare situation, but it has nothing to do with Nest (at least with the current info)?
How is two-factor authentication not a prerequisite for using Nest in the first place? I know we've moved as a society fairly quickly from expecting users to generate entropy to something that is actually secure. So it's understandable that some companies lag behind. But Google is attempting to connect everything they can to the internet. If the bar for them isn't to at least prevent the easiest, most obvious hack fr…
Re: Family traumatized after Nest system hacked by stranger
#75Why is this low quality fear mongering Fox news post on the top page of HN? There is no evidence of "hacking" here, and Nest's official response was that the person had a poor or breached password. I get that this would be a nightmare situation, but it has nothing to do with Nest (at least with the current info)?
Hacker News is not just about "hacking". I posted it here as a reflection of the status quo about what people (don't) know about the implications of connecting home services to a centralized network.