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I work at a place that does smart locks (for businesses though) and my first question to them during the interview was what happens when the internet is out. Th
by squeaky-clean 3y ago
I work at a place that does smart locks (for businesses though) and my first question to them during the interview was what happens when the internet is out. Thankfully they thought of that and it can even be taken offline permanently after the first time setup.
What I heard from other people in the industry is that when Facebook had that huge multi-day outage, it was partly because their smart locks couldn't open externally without an internet connection, and it was relying on Facebook's DNS which was the source of the huge outage.
- nanolith 3y agoI had long and contentious arguments about this. It really opened my eyes to how little innovators really think about these problems. From the beginning, I was concerned about ensuring that our product fails safe, that we had good ESD protection, that our encryption protocols were industry standard, and that we went through third party security auditing. As I liked to say, I wanted to build a product that I'd feel confident about giving to my grandmother. She should be able to use it even if she lacks familiarity with current technology, and I should feel that she's safer for having it.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoI have similar feelings, except I joined after those arguments happened. After working in ad-tech I wanted to move into a job where I didn't feel guilty about what I was building. It wasn't even particularly invasive ad-tech, but still F&$# ads. I don't want to name my company mainly so my coworkers don't learn my HN account, but basically every product feature involves a consultation with a very well known white hat hacker.