Someone fucked up in an egregious way. While shit rolls downhill, I believe the ultimate accountability lies with the executive product owners who allowed this defective product to be marketed this way.

Whether or not they knew is immaterial, they should have known.

Ah, not as bad as it first looked, but:

> he points out that companies don’t tend to keep their serial numbers secret. Some stick them right on the box they sell at Best Buy — yes, including Eufy.

I’m good with condemning this massive lapse/lie about “no cloud” devices.

Their original statements, from that link: With secure local storage, your private data never leaves the safety of your home, and is accessible by you alone. False. Facial ID images were uploaded to the Eufy cloud. All recorded footage is encrypted on-device False. Footage was not encrypted. At all. Only the url was encrypted, not the footage. This is also known as a lie

And no executives knew anything about the mixup. No one approved this, it just happened.

I provided a source. You can do the same.

Honest mistakes are minor. This was not honest, or a mistake.

They marketed these devices as specifically “no cloud” security, because of the concerns over Ring and other devices like that.

Then it turns out that it was all made up.

Their devices sent images to the cloud. Unencrypted. AND SAVED IT THERE

Their devices sent video to the cloud. Unencrypted. For anyone with the right url to view.

There were numerous, numerous failings in the security model of this supposedly secure device. They knowingly went to market with it. They avoided owning up to it for 3 months. They continued to sell the defective product during that time frame.

This was not an honest mistake.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/ankers-eufy-admits-problems-with-unencrypted-video-access-pledges-overhaul/

Their “no cloud” security cameras would actually allow third party access to unencrypted streams.

It took 3 months for them to come clean about the issue. An absolute disaster from a security perspective - multiple, multiple failings were required for those products to hit market.

After the Eufy thing I’m not sure I trust them enough to plug a USB device of theirs into anything of mine.

I’m not as worried about fires.

Anker used to be my go to brand for cheap electronics but after their spycam disaster with Eufy and now this, I don’t think I’ll be a repeat customer.