This product is a little too far ahead of its time. Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door. Excerpt:
When a courier arrives with a package for in-home delivery, they scan the barcode, sending a request to Amazon’s cloud. If everything checks out, the cloud grants permission by sending a message back to the camera, which starts recording. The courier then gets a prompt on their app, swipes the screen, and voilà, your door unlocks. They drop off the package, relock the door with another swipe, and are on their way. The customer will get a notification that their delivery has arrived, along with a short video showing the drop-off to confirm everything was done properly.
Oh boy. Never mind that the home owners will be allowing a strangers access to the house, they've also got a door lock connected to the internet which is an issue just as big. Hardly a week goes by during which we don't hear about some major hack of a database. Just the other day Sophos disclosed an exploitable weakness in Microsoft Office. See Microsoft Office DDE zero-day: are you protected?.
Never forget that deception is always one step ahead of detection and that all devices connected to the internet are vulnerable.
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3:32 PM 10/25/2017
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