SIMPLISAFE IS FAR FROM SAFE
🗞 Once in a while, while watching a video on Invidious ( a proxy site allowing to watch YouTube videos in freedom ) I come across a very interesting advertising. SimpliSafe. A collection of home appliances that make security of the home supposedly simpler. And therefor makes your home safer.
Just by thinking about a high tech company making security devices I cringe. So I had to look into it to see whether my gut feeling about this whole thing is right. Or perhaps I was wrong and SimpliSafe actually can be trusted. Spoiler Alert: I wasn't wrong!
THE BOGUS CONCEPT
Before we go through their dirty laundry let's talk about things I assumed that they do being a high tech company selling basically cameras that are connected 24 / 7 to their servers.
At the very least with tethered devices like these the company might just shut the whole service down one day and everything you purchased will stop working. This happened multiple times already with various tethered devices.
But then there is the elephant in the room. The insane level of total surveillance this kind of technology has to have in order for it's intended functionality to work. For example the advertised feature of seeing what's going on at your house from your phone.
For this to work a video stream should be recorded by the cameras of those devices, this video stream should be sent to the company, in this case SimpliSafe, and then this video stream should be sent to your phone from the company. In an ideal way if su ...
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