I’m done with Wyze
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XP9X)
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I just threw my Wyze home security cameras in the trash. I'm done with this company.
I just learned that for the past three years, Wyze has been fully aware of a vulnerability in its home security cameras that could have let hackers look into your home over the internet - but chose to sweep it under the rug. And the security firm that found the vulnerability largely let them do it.
Three years
Instead of patching it, instead of recalling it, instead of just, you know, saying something so I could stop pointing these cameras at my kids, Wyze simply decided to discontinue the WyzeCam v1 this January without a full explanation. But on Tuesday, security research firm Bitdefender finally shed light on why Wyze stopped selling it: because...