Or claiming things happening due to a bug when the result is a clear benefit to them.
steventrouble@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’m so tired of every major tech company claiming their monopoly is for “security reasons”. It’s fear mongering plain and simple.
nul9o9@lemmy.world 5 months ago
daniskarma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Big Ubisoft vibes.
DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 5 months ago
“lol woops we put huge ads in the game our bad”
jabjoe@feddit.uk 5 months ago
It’s even cars, dishwashers, cookers, and other white goods now. They can’t open even their APIs “because of security”. Each one has their protocols to their own servers. If you get any access, it’s via their cloud/servers. WHEN they abandon those devices, stop supporting their protocols on their servers, any smarts are crippled. It’s just so short sighted. So vendor locking. So anti repair. So anti digital freedom. It’s plain monopolistic digital serfdom. Purely software, on pure computers, is yesterday’s battle front.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A smart home is far more secure if every device isn’t connecting to some other company’s service that probably tries to save on IT costs. I don’t want an internet of things, I want a private network of things.
And when each thing is it’s own island, you lose some of the real benefits of having connected things. A smart home that I’d like is one where if I turn on the dishwasher or laundry machine, it checks the water softener to make sure there’s enough soft water that my dishes or clothes won’t end up with dissolved solids when they dry. Instead, smart water softeners that I’ve looked into are all about letting you check if you need salt from your phone or setting up a salt subscription service.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Your completely right. But it is a hard sell to the family. They only really see the loss of functionality. So what I do is two networks. My stuff is on the secure network and theirs is on the other one. When I’m asked why, I say their devices aren’t secure enough and their digital hygiene is too low. They can’t argue with me as I’m the one who knows the most about this stuff by a long long way. I do put my foot down about Alexa and open mic stuff, but lots of stuff has voice functionally I’ve disabled. My wife uses Google’s voice stuff on her phone, which means an open mic to Google and she doesn’t worry when it says “I’m sorry I didn’t understand that” at random times. Really politics need to catch up so we all protected more.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Not even saying that openness makes things more secure and this was supposed proven in late 90s and early 00s.
The world feels as if it’s generally become dumber.
I remember that in my childhood (born 1996, thinking 2004-2009) most adults would have right ideas about computing philosophically, even if not knowing a single specific thing and just pushing buttons.
Like that if somebody tries to frighten you into some action, they are crooks. Or that repairable things cost you less. Or that openness, modularity and interoperability are what our modern civilization is built upon, so these can’t be worse than their opposites.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 months ago
You ever seen Idiocracy? Feels more and more likely…