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Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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There's no excuse for a buffer overflow in a caching component to lead to a security hole like this. If the data were properly encrypted and could only be decrypted by the client on their own device, the result would have been users simply not seeing videos instead of being able to view others'.
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.
Yeah, but part of Wyze's sales pitch is their AI image recognition features, and they'd lose all training data by doing that and would force it to be processed locally, both of which would be a dead end.
I realize these might not be features you want nor care about... but those are the features they want to offer.
Even just encrypting it before transmission would have prevented this, and still allowed them to harvest data.