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This may come as a surprise, but it's not just hackers (or China) that you need to worry about. I've worked at a couple of FAANGs (risk, privacy, compliance) an
by mv4 2y ago
This may come as a surprise, but it's not just hackers (or China) that you need to worry about. I've worked at a couple of FAANGs (risk, privacy, compliance) and was shocked by the lack of internal guardrails. Here's Amazon Ring settling with the FTC - company's own employees were watching customer video feeds for entertainment:
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/ring-refunds https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/ring-refunds
Tesla's been caught doing similar things. The list goes on.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
- kajecounterhack 2y agoI use Nest cameras at home instead of ring because based on work at Google I expect there to be strong internal guardrails relative to Ring (also heard about their lax standards), but happy to hear anecdata from (ex-)Nest engineers about potential issues.
- mv4 2y agoI would love to hear from ex-Nest engineers as well about internal access. As for hackers, I remember seeing multiple Nest hacking incidents in the press a few years ago, but it appears they've hardened the system since then: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/01/google-nest-advanced-protection/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/01/google-nest-advanced-prote...
- flanbiscuit 2y agoI use Amazon's Blink camera. Wonder if they could also be accessed by Amazon employees. Probably can if they are using their servers.