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Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private

Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private

Kohler is getting the scoop on people’s poop.
Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
#technology
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notsure
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...i want to see a shocked pikachu face...
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Apathy Tree
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Red Dwarf S03E01 Backwards. Image shows Cat at the end of the episode, in the grass to have a shit before entering Starbug. But being the backward planet, where everything happens backward, Cat is shown with an unpleasantly surprised look on his face, with messed up hair

This one seems more fitting.

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..i agree, wholeheartedly...i seem tongue tied...
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TehPers
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Quoting Kohler:

We encrypt data end-to-end in transit, as it travels between users’ devices and our systems, where it is decrypted and processed to provide and improve our service.


I guess Kohler recently learned about TLS? IBM's response, which is a bit random in my opinion, addresses the idiocy of the E2EE claim lol.

I'd hope they encrypt data in transit? Not doing so would be an incredible, though unsurprising, show of incompetence. Setting up TLS and getting certs is easy these days with LetsEncrypt, and a company like Kohler could even get certs through AWS or Azure or something if they wanted.

I can't imagine why I'd ever spend money on a camera for my toilet, especially if it includes a subscription fee. That's a new level of stupid.

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5A7A
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Also, end to end encrypted specifically means NOT just "in transit", but also at rest.

In an E2EE-enabled service, messages are encrypted on the sender's device such that no third party, including the service provider, has the means to decrypt them. The recipients retrieve encrypted messages and decrypt them independently on their own devices. Since third parties cannot decrypt the data being communicated or stored, services with E2EE are better at protecting user data from data breaches and espionage.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-e…


cryptographic paradigm involving uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties

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Kissaki
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End to end - just like the food through your body 😏
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Scrubbles
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I've seen way way way too many marketers try to fluff up https as "encrypted". They clearly heard a keyword and they go off the walls like they're the most secure company that ever existed. Usually just a single follow up question like "is it encrypted at rest" or "is my data encrypted with a different key than other users", or even "does your company have the ability to decrypt it" falls flat on them.
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lightnsfw
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Someone in a board meeting somewhere used the term toilet camera and wasn't fired immediately...
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Sims
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Probably just inserted the Magic word "Profit" into the sentence. Any psychopathy is allowed from that point onwards..
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Segab 👻
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I'm colorblind so if my poop ever looked bloody I probably wouldn't be able to tell. So that's one use for a toilet camera I guess.
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CanadaPlus
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Not shocked. The fact other people might be shocked just tells you how out of control trust in the magic boxes and the people who sell them has gotten. When they collect something more sensitive or embarrassing, people just assume the security and regulation is tighter to match.
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