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Hello Dave. I control your thermostat. Google’s Nest gets hacked
- upofadown 12y agoIf you use your new found power over a thermostat to actually change something about the occupants environment your hack will be immediately detected and corrected. So you only get to use your power once. For embedded systems that control a real life processes, security weaknesses are just another form of unreliability. In the end it doesn't really matter that someone, somewhere caused your pipes to burst. The real issue was that software was allowed to do that in the first place. No one cares that you made a funny display...
- thrillgore 12y agoI love Nest's response where they suggested buying a Dropcam to fix the problem. That's hilarious.