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Eight Sleep adds 'outage mode' to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen (theverge.com)
6 points by ls-a 18 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


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Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue (248 points, 1 day ago, 260 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658056

I found a backdoor into my bed (980 points, 8 months ago, 393 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129439


If you care about your data privacy don't get this bed. There's really no good reason for it to phone home and tell the CEO (YC company), when you're sleeping, if you're sleeping with someone else, and when you're sick.




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