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  • Except one of the #1 things that has been brought up in every previous one has never been addressed, and that is role based permissions.

    If I want a guest to be able to control certain things, I can set them up a dashboard but they can still look at all devices and their history.

    If I want my kid to be able to turn on certain lights, I can’t restrict them from opening the garage or messing with my office lighting.

    HA is super, super powerful. But that’s a double edged sword when you can’t restrict people from interacting with certain devices.


  • If that is in fact how this works (I haven’t dug in too far) then technically yes. The problem is, these are one off zero days. You can’t exactly test that this problem exists unless you know it exists, and if you know it exists then Apple knows it exists (in the case of a mainstream antivirus app at least) so there’s no point in actually attempting to exploit it, just throw in a check for vulnerable versions.

    There’s no one size fits all “all pdf exploits that ever will exist” solution because there are exploits that will likely not exist for a time.




  • The way Frenck handled the tone initially was mostly okay, though he really should have properly addressed the concern with details as he did in his final comment. The comments in between are pretty dismissive, I agree.

    That said, there’s no real issue of information being leaked. The first 5 characters of a hash are all but useless to an attacker. Admittedly, it does raise the attack surface very slightly, and should be opt in instead of opt out. Or at the very least be enabled by default and presented during onboarding.

    That said, there’s way this works doesn’t ring any alarm bells to me.


  • The comparison is done by hashing your password, sending some of the first few characters of the hash to HIBP, receiving hashes that match that pattern, then locally comparing the full hashes.

    So there’s no concern that credentials are being leaked (despite the other post earlier this month insisting HA was leaking all your secrets) as you can’t really leak a password with a partial hash (you can narrow an attack surface very slightly, I admit), and all actual true comparisons are done locally.








  • You realize companies have and do fire people for actions in their personal lives, right? Especially in the US where virtually everyone works “at will” and having signed a piece of paper stating they would not hurt the reputation of the company or face termination? Other countries and contracts have similar clauses. Sweden is one such country, where there is a process involved but it is still very much a thing.

    So why is it when an individual high up in the company, someone with decision power and who directly benefits from sales, does something that hurts the public perception, suddenly you’re asking us to just ignore it?

    Why is it that your accusation of astroturfing sounds suspiciously like… well, astroturfing.