Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: Imagine a world where you pay $2000 for a smart bed, and $19/month for a subscription ...
Imagine a world where you pay $2000 for a smart bed, and $19/month for a subscription to keep using those smart features (like adjusting the temperature of the mattress, or tracking your sleeping habits or whatever).
Imagine a world where your smart bed is running a Linux firmware, constantly connected to a Kinesis stream (with access keys exposed in plaintext to whoever can get their hands on the device), and exposes an SSH service with a key that is accessible to the whole engineering team.
Which means that all engineers that work for the producing company can access at any moment the beds of all of their customers, over SSH. They can change the software at any moment, and they can know at any moment when their customers are sleeping, how they are sleeping, and even how many people they’re sleeping with.
Imagine a company that can tell that OpenAI employees had a bad time lately because many of them have purchased their beds, and you can tell from your data that their sleep quality has reduced by 27% over the past month.
I don’t think that anybody who dreamed of a connected future with tons of smart devices to make our lives easier a few years ago would have ever imagined a scenario like this.
But it looks like reality has turned even more dystopian than the fervid imagination of Black Mirror producers.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed
Imagine a world where your smart bed is running a Linux firmware, constantly connected to a Kinesis stream (with access keys exposed in plaintext to whoever can get their hands on the device), and exposes an SSH service with a key that is accessible to the whole engineering team.
Which means that all engineers that work for the producing company can access at any moment the beds of all of their customers, over SSH. They can change the software at any moment, and they can know at any moment when their customers are sleeping, how they are sleeping, and even how many people they’re sleeping with.
Imagine a company that can tell that OpenAI employees had a bad time lately because many of them have purchased their beds, and you can tell from your data that their sleep quality has reduced by 27% over the past month.
I don’t think that anybody who dreamed of a connected future with tons of smart devices to make our lives easier a few years ago would have ever imagined a scenario like this.
But it looks like reality has turned even more dystopian than the fervid imagination of Black Mirror producers.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/removing-jeff-bezos-from-my-bed