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So the marketing emphasizes the privacy aspects of this device, yet in the comments (not noted on the website), you state that it has "no security whatsoever".
by markovbot 8y ago
So the marketing emphasizes the privacy aspects of this device, yet in the comments (not noted on the website), you state that it has "no security whatsoever". This seems like an important disclaimer that should be given on the website.
- catherd 8y agoIt's not a privacy focused device. It's a device intended to give hackers the ability to do things they aren't able to do with typical commercial hardware. As a side effect of that there are some properties related to security that you get for free (no tracking cookies, no black box cellular radio), and others, like encryption, that we will try to add if we make enough to fund doing it. But we won't feature creep the project and risk never delivering just to check a box that's not part of our core goal.
- dang 8y ago"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- joecool1029 8y agodang, the author includes an entire privacy section on his site about this device. He then contradicts it downthread. Try clicking 'Privacy' in the footer... oh right, you can't. The website doesn't use HTTPS, includes trackers, and it might be the case that the author hasn't figured it out that without mitigations, wifi can be tracked just like cellular radio. In short, it's the scammiest looking project I've seen posted to HN in a long time. At least they aren't taking money yet so the author can continue to shoot himself in the foot in comments.