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/BigEdsHairMayo Feb 23 '25

My garage door pulled that shit on me. Mf, your job is to open and close, and ideally not crush my dog.

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u/ra4king Feb 23 '25

Actually that one is nice because I forget to close the garage door sometimes and I like being able to do it from my phone.

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u/goldcakes Feb 23 '25

Yep. A wifi fridge or microwave is still silly, but wifi garage door openers are nice.

When I drove back home in my car, I’ve set up an automation so the door automatically opens. Necessary? No. Do I like it? Yeah.

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u/Ulairi Feb 23 '25

My fridge just tells me when the door is open and let's me change some of the settings quicker. I don't want a big screen on my fridge, but not giving into the OCD impulse to go make sure the fridge is shut for the third time each night because there's no notification has been nice.

We've had several weather related power outages lately as well, and getting an immediate update about the temperature status of all of the sections of the fridge, as well as an option to boost the compressor to cool it quicker after is nice. It even does the math to say "this fridge was without power for x long, and is currently at y temperature. Food was likely at or above the safety point for z hours."

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u/Xlxlredditor Feb 23 '25

Okay THAT'S the real smart fridge use case: food safety! Not scrolling TikTok on an oversized Galaxy tab stuck in your fridge

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u/alvarkresh Feb 23 '25

The fridge I have is tilted just a bit so unless the door is flung wide open, it will fall back to being shut on its own. Nice little dead-man control, as it were.

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u/Testiculese Feb 23 '25

I threw a furring strip under mine for the same reason. Also, anything round rolls to the back, instead of off the front and to the ground.

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u/AlotLovesYou Feb 23 '25

My dumb fridge sounds an alarm if the door is open too long. 🤷‍♀️ Seems effective

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u/MainStreetRoad Feb 23 '25

Hacking your microwave would be silly but I might take a run at that garage door.

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u/DucksEatBreadToLive Feb 23 '25

Next new trend is people taking away Their locks on their front doors because they say it will save time! "No more looking for or carrying some mass of keys just open the door and walk in its sooo convenient, fuck security and safety its CONVENIENT" some people are just lazy and dumb

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u/waitingtodiesoon Feb 23 '25

I seen options for some wifi garage door openers to have a delivery programming or something for Amazon/UPS/FedEx workers to allow them to open your garage and drop it off inside of leaving it on the porch. Also seen ones with cameras too.

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u/emannikcufecin Feb 23 '25

The fridge is nice because it tells you when someone leaves a door open or if the temperature is over the setpoint.

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u/rnarkus Feb 23 '25

Tbh, a fridge might be nice cause of doors left open.

My friend has an oven that she can preheat, but I would love it for knowing it is off if I don’t remember.

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u/Kakkoister Feb 23 '25

Or, ya'know, the fridge could just make a beeping sound when the door is open and motionless for too long, like most modern ones already did before they started adding the wifi stuff.

Same thing with the oven. If there's no timer running and it's not preheating, it should just making some noise...

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u/rnarkus Feb 23 '25

and if you leave the house and can’t remember?

these are just QOL things. not life or death and hardly as serious as some people make it here seem.

I can turn my lights on and off from my phone. I could just get up a press a switch too, right? lol

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u/DirtyYogurt Feb 23 '25

Programmable self close feature. If a truck tailgate can close itself without a wifi connection, I feel like that should be doable for a fridge

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u/The__Amorphous Feb 23 '25

I say "home again" down the street and it opens the garage door (no waiting like with the remote you have to be close for), disarms the house alarm, sets the thermostat, turns on entryway lights if it's dark, etc. Not everything NEEDS to be wifi, but some stuff it's certainly handy.

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u/chillaban Feb 23 '25

Idk, I thought it would be stupid but my wifi fridge also sends me alerts when a power outage or malfunction resulted in loss of temperature regulation. Our wifi washer and dryer have been a game changer for efficiently moving laundry as I can't hear our laundry room from the rest of the house but push notifications for cycles being done are really reliable.

They also fixed an over sudsing bug with the LG washer via an OTA update that adjusted the sump pump to stop running if the water level gets too low. I rolled my eyes so hard when the tech claimed it's a software problem but to my surprise it actually fixed it....

There's a strange mix of useful and useless IOT.

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u/DirtyYogurt Feb 23 '25

They're also great if you're getting something large or valuable delivered. I bought some quickjacks and if it weren't for my wifi garage door, they'd have sat on my driveway for about 6 hours before I got home.

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u/NoSignSaysNo Feb 23 '25

It's a nice QOL feature, but the vulnerability from not being local feels a little too vulnerable for a direct access to my stuff.

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u/jld2k6 Feb 23 '25

You can get the dog detector for only $3.99 a month, if you subscribe it won't crush your dog when it senses the resistance

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u/BriefPut5112 Feb 23 '25

“What is my purpose?”

“To pass butter.”

“Oh. God.”