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Let's not conflate the cloud service, with locking the devices from their users and preventing even non-cloud-functionality. It's like if the landscaper tried
by like_any_other 1y ago
Let's not conflate the cloud service, with locking the devices from their users and preventing even non-cloud-functionality.
It's like if the landscaper tried charging me for using my own lawnmower, myself.
- kube-system 1y agoIf you can use the box without the service, just do it. I think the actual answer is that you can't. Just because the technology is there in such a way that it theoretically could, doesn't mean that is actually what you bought.
- like_any_other 1y ago> If you can use the box without the service, just do it. They prevented that by locking the boxes, and threatened prosecution to someone trying to undo those locks: Futurehome CEO threatens police action after I offer $5,000 bounty to free his ransomed customers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwSkwh3nWv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwSkwh3nWv8
- kube-system 1y agoIf you buy a device that remotely executes code as a matter of normal operation, there isn’t anything local about it.