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This smoke alarm looks very complex, and the amount of risk increases with the level complexity. For such a complex product, I would want to know some insights
by yitchelle 13y ago
This smoke alarm looks very complex, and the amount of risk increases with the level complexity. For such a complex product, I would want to know some insights to the following.
What safety standards have been applied to the software development and product development?
Does it need wifi to work correctly?
Can you connect it to the mains power?
How secure is the wifi connection? ie Can it be hacked for malicious purposes?
etc.....
For something so critical to a life and death situation, I want something to function as simple as possible.
- codereflection 13y agoSecurity of the wifi device and it's connection to the internet.. not enough people are talking about this. So many "internet enabled" devices out there are poor on security. I would love to hear from the people behind Nest on how they plan to take on internet attacks.
- macleanjr 13y agoSome of Google's security team has helped to stiffen the safeguards[1] [1] http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/nest-smoke-detector/all/ http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/nest-smoke-detector/al...
- blibble 13y agothe fact that's even possible worries me. 1 billion transistors and 40 million lines of code in my smoke detector. hurrah, the smoke detector crashed again!
- codereflection 13y agoThanks for that link. I suppose it's good that some effort from experienced people has been made, but this really concerns me that the security stiffening was a "side project" of some Google folks. "Board member and investor Bill Maris of Google Ventures says that some of Google’s security team helped stiffen Nest’s safeguards as a side project."