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Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by com2kid on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:44PM (#15013265)
Normally there is a bit of code signing involved.

Just in case the domain name lapses. (Or for any of a hundred other reasons why having a system that reads plain text commands from the network is a bad idea)

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Re:Airbnb's preferred smart lock vendor accidentally bricks ... by joshribakoff on Friday August 18, 2017 @02:33AM (#15044033)
If someone is not competent enough to keep their domain renewed, what's to say they're competent enough to keep private keys secured, and not lose or leak them. Then again I saw something on here recently about someone hijacking the whole .io TLD, so what you're saying is a real issue.
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