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January 20, 2016 10:37 pm GMT

Nest confirms its smart thermostat quietly leaked user data

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Nest has long been the darling of the smart home industry, but the company recently confirmed its web-connected smart thermostat, known for learning the behavior of owners and saving them money, had been quietly leaking data

But don't freak out yet. It's not as bad as it sounds

In a report published to the site Freedom to Tinker and presented at the recent PrivacyCon conference, researchers at Princeton University detail how they detected that Nest's popular thermostat, among other web-connected devices, was transmitting data unencrypted, so in theory, online hackers could have intercepted that private information if they were looking in the right place. Read more...

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