Comment by someguydave
3 days ago
interesting that the crux of the Nix dispute was about how he wanted to self-modify the HA after install, and the crux of the current dispute is how HA should be able to scan your secrets and upload truncated hashes
It's not a good look taken together
I doubt the guy is malicious, but it should really be obvious why people are nervous about this stuff. If I put a password into a home automation tool, is my default expectation that it's going to phone home and send any information (even if it's just a bit of information about a hash) about my passwords?
Which option will minimize the feelings of betrayal and violation: making this feature opt-in or opt-out?
Any level of understanding of humans will produce the right answer.
maybe he isn't malicious but he also doesn't seem to have a great deal of respect for the ownership and privacy of his customer's computers