Comment on It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug
tyler@programming.dev 4 days agoThe security wasn’t patched. Any firmware update can be modified since the keys are provided with the update. So while the patch may have been applied, it’s not permanent.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I feel like the article could have done a slightly better job of pointing this out to the layperson. But yeah, it is trivially easy to get the key off the manufacturer’s own website. Easy enough for a high school teen to do it in my opinion.