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Re:Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent ... by kajecounterhack on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @01:22PM (#40802247)
I think the hate directed their way has more to do with the outsized claims of the founder, Jesse Lyu. For example, he claimed that you're buying a device with a "LAM" but it turned out to be playwright scripts wrapping APIs + OpenAI APIs, and the underlying action model was missing (or very nascent at ship). The team also took a lot of shortcuts security-wise and is getting wrecked for it now (it's not just one hole):

https://x.com/xyz3va/status/1805689140639408277

https://x.com/xyz3va/status/1805985433156759781 (this is the OP)

https://x.com/xyz3va/status/1805993239368860069

Doesn't help that he was shilling crypto right before rabbit. What people love about the form factor has mostly to do with Teenage Engineering's quirky design. Somehow Jesse is a board member there, it seems.

In general I don't recommend trusting their software. If you like the hardware, you can flash AOSP and use google assistant -- it's way more capable and AOSP isn't harvesting your credentials. https://github.com/RabbitHoleEscapeR1/r1_escape

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Re:Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent ... by szermer on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @01:37PM (#40802409)
Coffeezilla did a nice piece on this, piecing together some of the crypto threads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvFc_24vSM
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Re:Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent ... by dpflan on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @01:29PM (#40802309)
This is the reason; the product is imbued with the negative externalities of the people and ideas associated with it.
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Re:Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent ... by kajecounterhack on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @01:35PM (#40802378)
Well and the realities of bad security, bad usability with touchscreen typically disabled, crappy battery life ^^'
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Re:Rabbit failed to properly reset keys: emails can be sent ... by officeplant on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @03:23PM (#40803560)
>Somehow Jesse is a board member there, it seems.

With my eternal love/hate relationship with Teenage Engineering (cheap enough music gadgets vs overpriced metal folding table and OP1 price inflation) I'm almost excited to find more reasons to stop giving the company any more brain time / money ever again.

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