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Form engineer here. We're not planning on shipping our firmware signing keys along with our product like Belkin did. Jokes aside, security, integrity and trust
by k0ngo 12y ago
Form engineer here. We're not planning on shipping our firmware signing keys along with our product like Belkin did. Jokes aside, security, integrity and trust are our very top priorities. The hardware is designed in a way that should be extremely hard to misuse, and even if someone would be able to break the encrypted protocols, the encrypted and signed firmware images and manage to run custom firmwares on the MCU:s, they would still be limited by the extremely low power budget and the very limited amount of memory, so I would say that it is nearly impossible to store and/or transmit any meaningful amount of audio.
- simi_ 12y agoAny plans to open source some of the software?
- kristiandupont 12y agoNot at first but it's very likely that we will at some point.
- coldpie 12y agoI would be far more interested if it were open source, or at least had a public API.
- nmattisson 12y agoWe do have an API, but it might not be public from day one. There will be a beta-tier on Kickstarter that will get immediate access, and when we consider it solid we'll open it up.
- ancarda 12y agoAre there any plans to have an Ethernet model rather than Wi-Fi?
- kristiandupont 12y agoNo. May I ask why you would prefer that? Is it a security concern?
- ancarda 12y agoI don't have WPS on my router (How else do you input the SSID/Password?) and I turn Wi-Fi off when I'm not in my house so this product would be a real hassle to setup/use.
- k0ngo 12y agoThe device is configured wirelessly using the smartphone app. It'll queue the events and measurements if your wifi is down, but I see that it will be hard for you to use if you always turn your wifi off when you are away.
- kubiiii 12y agoUsually this kind of gear acts like a wifi access so that you can directly connect to it and input ssid / password.
- RankingMember 12y agoIs turning the wifi off when you leave a security concern or a power thing, like you're running off the grid? I'm just curious, as if it's the former and I had the same concern I'd just limit access to specific MAC addresses and make the access point invisible.
- ancarda 12y agoBoth. Why not save power by turning off the router while shrinking the amount of time there is to break into my Wi-Fi network? I can't see a reason to leave my network on while I'm out of my house. I don't need it and as far as I can tell, my neighbors don't either. That said if someone needed to use Wi-Fi, I'd be happy to open a guest network for them (I think my router can do that but I haven't checked).
- swamp40 12y agoAs a fellow embedded design engineer, I would advise you to read up a bit on the Greek gods Hubris and Nemesis.
- gress 12y agoSo you're suggesting they just give up?
- swamp40 12y agoNo, not at all - I'm just saying it is a mistake to laugh at Belkin's misfortunes.
- k0ngo 12y agoI wouldn't call it hubris when we're saying that we know of these aspects, consider them our most important design constraints and do our very best to address them. Not being a native English speaker, it perhaps didn't come through humble enough :)