• CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m 90% sure it is not a single user. I just don’t see how that really affects the security of the product, given that the company that sells it can already do the things the author is saying can be done if you have this key.

    To be clear, I wouldn’t buy this. I just don’t think the SSH key makes it any worse than it already was

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      20 hours ago

      Would you rather one person have access to your device / data to potentially perform malicious actions or multiple people access to your device / data to potentially perform malicious actions?

      And if you tell me multiple people, you’re full of it.

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        15 hours ago

        I think multiple people already have access to the databases that store the data the device sends. I don’t really care whether they get the data from the device itself or from the database.

        Similarly, I think multiple people have the ability to make changes to the firmware build and the systems that distribute it. So those people already have the potential ability to gain access to the device.

        One person or multiple people having unauthorised access are both unacceptable. I’m saying that the users have to trust the companies ability to prevent that occurring, and that therefore this particular technical detail is mostly irrelevant