Kohler Can Access Data from Toilet Camera It Describes as "End-to-End Encrypted"
varlogsimon.leaflet.pubThis is quite literally an adult swim parody video from 11 years ago (NSFW): https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
Smart pipe! Good for knowing those nitrates.
Hey, it's SmartPipe! https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ
>emails exchanged with Kohler’s privacy contact clarified that the other “end” that can decrypt the data is Kohler themselves
this is just embarrassing
Paying $600 plus a subscription for a poo camera is a bit embarrassing in itself.
> promising to track and provide insights on gut health, hydration, and more.
While I'm sure this theoretically could be 100% device side and handled only in encrypted format on the servers, that would be a gigantic pain in the arse (heh). At least, on-device inference is going to be a bit crap (heh) for some time. Since anyone gullible enough to think this was a good buy is probably up to their neck in 419 scams already, telling them "nah yeah it's E2EE, it's fine bro trust us" should cover it.
People who think this though probably aren't numerous and aren't going to be customers anyway (but I'm sure AI Rate My Dump is or will be a YC thing eventually).
I hope there’s no back door
"E2EE" == "There's no way you'd trust us with this shit in plaintext"
this whole thing stinks