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Ring Throws A Moist Towelette On Its Dumpster Fire With A Couple Of Minimal Security Tweaks

Ring Throws A Moist Towelette On Its Dumpster Fire With A Couple Of Minimal Security Tweaks

4 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200106/15052043689/ring-throws-moist-towelette-dumpster-fire-with-couple-minimal-security-tweaks.shtml

Things have gotten worse and worse for Amazon's Ring over the past several months. Once just the pusher of a snitch app that allowed city residents to engage in racial profiling from the comfort of their homes, Ring is now synonymous with poor security practices and questionable "partnerships" with hundreds of law enforcement agencies around the nation.

Ring owners recently discovered how easily their cameras could be hijacked by assholes with no moral compass and too much time on their hands. Using credentials harvested from security breaches, online forum members took control of people's cameras to entertain a podcast audience who listened along as hijackers verbally abused Ring owners and their children.