Alternative article: ‘Silicon Valley’s Favorite Mattress, Eight Sleep, had a backdoor to enable company engineers to SSH into any bed’
Alternative article: ‘Silicon Valley’s Favorite Mattress, Eight Sleep, had a backdoor to enable company engineers to SSH into any bed’
So; for $2k upfront, $19 a month in saas fees, you get a bed that you can adjust the temperature of online? And also, opens up your whole house to being remotely hacked? And our guy in the article has chucked his electronics and replaced it with a tropical aquarium heater pump for $180, which suggests that it’s just the bog standard kind of waterbed that you could have bought for about $300, with unnecessary tech attached?
There’s plenty of “silicon valley tech” that seems to have a ridiculously poor value proposition - this isn’t the Juicero, but might challenge for second place. Have to wonder exactly what they’re thinking, though. And what the devs were thinking, putting it into production with a live AWS key in the firmware.
To be fair, beds have always been a racket. I know a bad one when I see it but could never tell a passable €100 bed from a €10,000 bed. Why I’d want my bed to be connected to the internet, nevermind Bezos, is beyond me. Then again, I’m not bright and have been known to sleep in ditches and on under-sized sleeping pads.