"Home: The place we return to. A place of privacy, security, identity and belonging."
My problem with all of these services is that in order for them to be effective and provide the features they're offering, you're essentially giving up some of your privacy and potentially weakening your security by filling your home with sensors broadcasting their inputs to a 3rd party. Sure - maybe you'll get a push notification if somebody breaks into your house. But you're also creating a new vector of attack to your home - a camera and microphone, capable of broadcasting "to the cloud" to a startup's servers that are hopefully designed in a way to safeguard, from both internal and external prying, the very-private data they'll amass.
No connected system is impenetrable. And given the very public governmental pressure to have access to any and all information from technology firms, I'm not sure the benefits of these products outweigh the costs.
There are plenty of legitimate concerns about privacy and security with any sensor installed in the home. However, you could at least read the basic information on their site about how they handle this before posting. For example, their site clearly states:
"Video is encrypted before it leaves your home with decryption keys held only on your mobile devices. Our cloud never sees your keys guaranteeing that data can never be leaked." -- https://cocoon.life/details/
It's fair to question how a customer could be confident that this is, and will always remain, the case. It's fair to ask what happens if the device is compromised, and how that might happen, and how that might be prevented. But it looks as though your characterisation of "filling your home with sensors broadcasting their inputs to a 3rd party" was just completely made up.
You're right. It appears they're doing things right. I overlooked that part of their site when I first viewed the link. I apologize to the Cocoon team for my oversight, and appreciate a company that looks like they're tackling the concerns I expressed head-on.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 21.5 ms ] threadMy problem with all of these services is that in order for them to be effective and provide the features they're offering, you're essentially giving up some of your privacy and potentially weakening your security by filling your home with sensors broadcasting their inputs to a 3rd party. Sure - maybe you'll get a push notification if somebody breaks into your house. But you're also creating a new vector of attack to your home - a camera and microphone, capable of broadcasting "to the cloud" to a startup's servers that are hopefully designed in a way to safeguard, from both internal and external prying, the very-private data they'll amass.
No connected system is impenetrable. And given the very public governmental pressure to have access to any and all information from technology firms, I'm not sure the benefits of these products outweigh the costs.
"Video is encrypted before it leaves your home with decryption keys held only on your mobile devices. Our cloud never sees your keys guaranteeing that data can never be leaked." -- https://cocoon.life/details/
It's fair to question how a customer could be confident that this is, and will always remain, the case. It's fair to ask what happens if the device is compromised, and how that might happen, and how that might be prevented. But it looks as though your characterisation of "filling your home with sensors broadcasting their inputs to a 3rd party" was just completely made up.