Re:Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to ...
by jart on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:10AM
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Third parties who want to exploit the relationship between Google and its users are certainly not users. I don't think it's productive to question their intentions. The better question to be asking here is how or why we allowed our homes to become yet another front in the war between Google and its adversaries. Their business model doesn't jive with third amendment culture. I reject any world in which there's a legitimate need for military grade encryption in my home. That is not the future I'm rooting for.
In reality, most hacks are stopped by stupid stuff, like closing down ports and proper key management hygiene, not by using completely-brute-force-proof encryption standards. I'll make you a deal: do everything else on that compute-limited embedded device to a practically-uncrackable standard, then you can upgrade to 256 bit crypto. Some devices get there, but no consumer electronics.
Encrypting the filesystem on that specific device is also completely irrelevant to my security as a user - it has more to do with Google protecting itself from copies and users being able to add features.