Comment by cs702
1 month ago
If you ask the Xfinity managers who came up with this idea whether thieves will be able to buy live information on whether your home is empty from hackers on the dark web, the managers will likely say... nothing. What they will do is look at you with a deer-in-the-headlights expression in their shocked faces.
Sigh.
The word "liability" might not always work, but occasionally it makes someone think a little harder about what their company is doing.
A company like Comcast knows more about the liabilities of what they're doing than any of their customers do, guaranteed.
Any service provided by a connected device can be framed as something "people can buy on the Dark Web".
XFinity lets you make HTTP requests to the web via your router. Uh-oh: XFinity decided to sell info on your web requests on the Dark Web.