Re:Xiaomi camera playing on Google home hub sends stills fro...
by krick on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:00PM
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Huh. I'm not sure what should be the baseline of "okay" now anymore, but I wonder if this isn't worse than leaving things be. Leakage is out there anyway, and it seems likely now that it is buggy enough for malevolent actor to find a way to spy on his neighbour. But what about those who is away from home now and really needs the footage for some reason? I guess lack of this footage would be a bigger security issue for them than the chance a couple of frames will leak to somebody else.
>"We’re aware of the issue and are in contact with Xiaomi to work on a fix. In the meantime, we’re disabling Xiaomi integrations on our devices."
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>It appears Google isn't taking any chances when it comes to this issue, disabling Xiaomi integrations entirely. We reached out for further confirmation that this would mean a blanket disabling of all Mi Home products and were told that is the case.
Pretty annoying they have to mess up all my other devices, but at least it's being addressed.
[1] feedshttps://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/02/uh-oh-xiaomi-camera...