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Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by testeronious@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

It doesn't even need to go that far. If some cache mixes up user ids and device ids, those user ids should go to request a video feed and the serving authority should be like "woah, YOU don't have access to that device/user". Even when you fucking mix these things up, there should be multiple places in the chain where this gets checked and denied. This is a systemic/architectural issue and not "one little oopsie in a library". That oopsie simply exposed the problem.

I don't care if I was affected or how widespread this is. This just shows Wyze can't be trusted with anything remotely "private". This is a massive security failing.