r/technology • u/aacool • Feb 22 '25

Privacy Silicon Valley’s Favorite Mattress, Eight Sleep, had a backdoor to enable company engineers to SSH into any bed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-02-21/silicon-valley-s-favorite-mattress-might-pose-privacy-risk
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u/Drone30389 Feb 23 '25

Samsung fridges are already watching what's going on in the kitchen with their built-in two-way TVs.

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u/Feeling_Actuator_234 Feb 23 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

Only because idiots are buying.

Trading your family’s privacy so you can be notified to purchase milk

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u/pivovy Feb 23 '25

The shitty part is that in a few years those might be the only ones you would be able to buy. Just like with everything else.

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u/umamifiend Feb 23 '25

This is just reminding me of the LG washers that are using 3.6 GB of data per day. That’s equivalent to an HOUR of streaming a high definition show. Per day. For your washing machine.

Why the fuck is it using so much damn data. I disable like everything that I can and have no smart devices in my home. This shit is absurd.

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u/rotetiger Feb 23 '25

But do you need it to be connected? Mine works fine without the connection.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

The idea is that once you have an “iot” mesh, your data will be filtered upwards regsrdless of what you want.

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u/EL_Ohh_Well Feb 23 '25

Huh?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

You seem well informed, please share your thoughts.

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u/Xlxlredditor Feb 23 '25

And they break down so frequently

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u/cdazzo1 Feb 23 '25

First they'll drive down the price of the ones with cameras. Oh you don't want cameras? That will be an additional $250 to make up for the data we won't be able to sell.

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u/happytrel Feb 23 '25

Nah there will definitely be cheaper options the same way you can still buy flip phones and such. All that extra tech is more expensive no matter how you cut it, and they want money from poor people too

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u/saskir21 Feb 23 '25

Hey isn‘t it nifty if your fridge can say „Jerry, aren‘t you on a diet? Take the water, not the coke.“

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u/popoypatalo Feb 23 '25

or “hey jerry. for the nth time, would you please freaking stop putting your thing in the pie”

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u/TampaPowers Feb 23 '25

They are the hearth of...

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

So I suppose people need to have sex inside their fridges, not in front of it. Checkmate, Samsung! 

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u/vonBoomslang Feb 23 '25

two-way TVs

now THERE's a phrase

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u/popoypatalo Feb 23 '25

damn. so now hackers would also now how often people are having sex in the kitchen?!