Re:CCTV Cameras Sold on Amazon Come with Pre-Installed Malware
by teacup50 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:04PM
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I think the 'vetting' is in buying products that are sourced through Amazon's supply chain, rather than vetting third-party sellers.
Unfortunately, there's not a "hide 3rd-party sellers" preference toggle.
Re:CCTV Cameras Sold on Amazon Come with Pre-Installed Malware
by cherioo on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:30PM
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It is possible to filter seller to Amazon.com only after you specify "Department", which is what I do most of the time. Maybe someone can write a greasemonkey script to apply it automatically.
Re:CCTV Cameras Sold on Amazon Come with Pre-Installed Malware
by rahimnathwani on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @10:31PM
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The last time I tried this, it did not hide third party offers from showing (or being the default) when you click through to the product detail page.
So you might filter in this way, and still buy a product from a third party seller.
I get the impulse, but there's a reason that Amazon offers its A-to-Z guarantee rather than an a priori vetting process. Because the latter is literally impossible.
How does the vetting even occur? Do we have armies of "compu-physical engineers", imaginary polymaths capable of analyzing any imaginable physical and/or software product for characteristics that should be rejected? If we had such mental deities at our disposal, why would we waste their time vetting gummi penguins for a retail outlet?!?
Given that we won't have a magical vetting army, it'll be exactly like the TSA: enormous costs incurred to vet that the overwhelming majority of stuff is just fine, a bunch of horrible side-effects from false positives, and bad stuff will still slip through whenever someone wants it to.