20 year old code can work as well as the day it was written. This is tech companies tying hardware to cloud services that they have no interest in supporting 10 years after they sold it to you.
Working as well and being secure are two different things. Smart devices are computers that connect to the Internet, and devices that no longer receive security updates are attack vectors.
From a SecOps standpoint, it’s perfectly reasonable to block such devices from hitting your servers.
These thermostats still work as thermostats, you just can’t use the cloud service.
I see you’re getting downvoted but it’s a reasonable take. I fired from the hip thinking this was like most IoT garbage these days that is bricked without a connection to the server.
20 year old code can work as well as the day it was written. This is tech companies tying hardware to cloud services that they have no interest in supporting 10 years after they sold it to you.
Working as well and being secure are two different things. Smart devices are computers that connect to the Internet, and devices that no longer receive security updates are attack vectors.
From a SecOps standpoint, it’s perfectly reasonable to block such devices from hitting your servers.
These thermostats still work as thermostats, you just can’t use the cloud service.
Then they should give users a way to replicate the lost features on their own server. That’d be the user’s own risk.
I know that no company does that. Doesn’t make it right.
Don’t buy IoT bullshit, kids.
I see you’re getting downvoted but it’s a reasonable take. I fired from the hip thinking this was like most IoT garbage these days that is bricked without a connection to the server.