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Re:Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video] by heyoni on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:36PM (#20072706)
They weren’t hacked so much as badly transferred ownership. Basically someone (Alexa or Wyze) didn’t invalidate security tokens after the device was sold and changed hands.
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Re:Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video] by kingo55 on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:44PM (#20072738)
Surely was not the first time a camera was sold second hand.
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Re:Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video] by devoply on Saturday June 01, 2019 @08:48PM (#20072755)
I know, but if that's trivial so is giving skeleton keys for all your network to the government for a fat contract (Amazon)... or they could just take it like they did with Cisco.
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