The Washington Times ran a story recently that reminded everyone how Apple’s HomeKit stands out from the crowd. It was about how an American researcher discovered that Chinese made coffee makers were collecting data on customers.
Mr. Balding said the problematic coffee machines are made by Kalerm in Jiangsu, China. The machines gather product information, payment data, and customer information involving location and time, the report from New Kite Data Labs said.
The data provides insight into a user’s name, relative location and usage patterns. In commercial settings such as hotel breakfast buffets, a coffee machine might collect types of payments and routing information. — Ryan Lovelace, Washington Times 06/14/2022
The tech press was giving Apple a lot of flack about 5 years ago regarding how Apple had such a stringent security and privacy framework that it was slowing down the HomeKit product pipeline. Of course, I was one of the only people who wrote back then that the lack of security that made the product explosion of Amazon Echo compatible products would come back to bite customers. Sure enough, I’ve been proven right over and over again. It’s not just these coffee-makers that have been exposed, there have been security cameras, baby monitors, doorbells, etc.
Where are all the tech journalist articles now about how Apple HomeKit products are among the most private and secure products you can buy? Anybody criticizing Apple’s high bar for security back in 2017 owes their audience an apology.
It may have taken a little longer but there is now a flourishing ecosystem of Apple HomeKit items you can buy for your home. If I have the choice of buying any internet connected item for my house, I’m always going to choose a HomeKit item over one that isn’t. Even if it costs more.
The data provides insight into a user’s name, relative location and usage patterns. In commercial settings such as hotel breakfast buffets, a coffee machine might collect types of payments and routing information. — Ryan Lovelace, Washington Times 06/14/2022
The tech press was giving Apple a lot of flack about 5 years ago regarding how Apple had such a stringent security and privacy framework that it was slowing down the HomeKit product pipeline. Of course, I was one of the only people who wrote back then that the lack of security that made the product explosion of Amazon Echo compatible products would come back to bite customers. Sure enough, I’ve been proven right over and over again. It’s not just these coffee-makers that have been exposed, there have been security cameras, baby monitors, doorbells, etc.
Where are all the tech journalist articles now about how Apple HomeKit products are among the most private and secure products you can buy? Anybody criticizing Apple’s high bar for security back in 2017 owes their audience an apology.
It may have taken a little longer but there is now a flourishing ecosystem of Apple HomeKit items you can buy for your home. If I have the choice of buying any internet connected item for my house, I’m always going to choose a HomeKit item over one that isn’t. Even if it costs more.
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