"The ZZZ mask is an intelligent sleep mask — it allows you to sleep less while sleeping deeper. That’s the premise — but really it is a paradigm breaking computer that allows full automation and control over the sleep process, including access to dreamtime."
or if this is another scifi variation of the same theme, with some dev like embellishments.
Amazing.
It is also technically a user failure to have purchased a connected device in the first place. Does the device require a closed-source proprietary app? Closed-source non-replaceable OS? Do not buy it.
I don't want a few irrationally paranoid people bottlenecking progress and access to the latest technology and innovation.
I'm happy to broadcast my brainwaves on an open YouTube channel for the ZERO people who are interested in it.
Coward. The only way to challenge this garbage is "Name and Shame". Light a fire under their asses. That fire can encourage them to do right, and as a warning to all other companies.
My guess is this is Luuna https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flowtimebraintag/luuna
Perhaps the author is not a coward, but is giving the company time to respond and commit to a fix for the benefit of other owners who could suffer harm.
Identify the kickstarter product talked around in this blog post: (link)
To think some blackhat hasn't already did that is frankly laughable. What I did was like the lowest of low-bars these days.
We often treat doxxing the same way, prohibiting posting of easily discovered information.
If we applied this similar analogy to a e.coli infection of foods, your recommendation amounts to "If we say the company name, the company would be shamed and lose money and people might abuse the food".
People need to know this device is NOT SAFE on your network, paired to your phone, or anything. And that requires direct and public notification.
If that's the case then they should have deferred this whole blog post.
What makes you think this is the one?
I said a guess, not absolute.
The other side of owning equipment like this is it still could be useful for some for personal and private use.
For a period of time it was popular for the industrial designers I knew to try to launch their own Kickstarters. Their belief was that engineering was a commodity that they could hire out to the lowest bidder after they got the money. The product design and marketing (their specialty) was the real value. All of their projects either failed or cost them more money than they brought in because engineering was harder than they thought.
I think we’re in for another round of this now that LLMs give the impression that the software and firmware parts are basically free. All of those project ideas people had previously that were shelved because software is hard are getting another look from people who think they’re just going to prompt Claude until the product looks like it works.
So, will they? Probably. Can you trust the kind of LLM that you would use to do a better job than the cheapest firm? Absolutely.
The operator is still a factor.
I have deployed open MQTT to the world for quick prototypes on non personal (and healthcare) data. Once my cloud provider told me to stop because they didn’t like it, that could be used for relay DDOS attacks.
I would not trust the sleep mask company even if they somehow manage to have some authentication and authorisation on their MQTT.
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