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The first two are simply embarrassing. Google paid 3 Billion for this stuff? Does anyone do QA any more? Especially for a device you use for a security purpose, you'd think bugs like this would be not only found, but designed to not happen in the first place.


> Does anyone do QA any more?

-QA pays much less, even for technically demanding roles like embedded systems SDET.

-There's little to no career growth for QA.

-QA is the first to be let go during layoffs.

-Developers routinely trash-talk QA people.

And, thus, it should hardly be a surprise that teams keep releasing products that cause people to ask "Does anyone do QA any more?"


I live near the Nest main office on Foothill Expressway. There used to be a signficant amount of cars there on the weekends. That is no longer true.


I know you're implying that they don't care anymore, but I think over-working leads to fatigue and rush jobs/corner cutting, which is a great way to end up with security flaws.


That's because Tony Fadell made them work on the weekends. If you're forcing your employees to work on the weekends, on a regular basis, then something is very wrong - which probably explains why he's no longer at Nest.


This reminds me of these Twitter threads:

https://twitter.com/yuhong2/status/829072680389267456

https://twitter.com/yuhong2/status/832053404553744385

https://twitter.com/yuhong2/status/844049570640285696

(Ryan Hurst joined Google around the time they split Nest into Alphabet)


Yes, Google paid the entirety of 3 billion dollars for specifically the lines of code that are vulnerable.

Sigh. Clickbait article, "Read"-bait comment.


> "Read"-bait comment. Can't think of a good wordplay but it's more 'upvote'-baiting imo


Sounds good to me.


The third flaw is endemic to Wifi, and it's so easy to execute with off-the-shelf tools that the more esoteric attacks hardly make the camera security any worse.

Anyone that cares about security uses hard-wired cameras.




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