Smart Beds Began Roasting Their Owners During AWS Outage
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A smart bed brand's devices malfunctioned during an AWS outage, allegedly 'roasting' their owners, sparking concerns about IoT device reliability and security; however, the story's validity is questioned due to lack of concrete evidence.
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Granted I was younger and assumed circumstances of le carré proportions...
Wonky dns records leading to everyone getting free failover testing when us-east-1 goes down which also apparently includes free firmware failure mode exposure that may or may not cook your customers if your electrical engineers plan for thermal failure modes as well as your firmware engineers do with connectivity failure modes and sane timeouts... That I didn't envision, and to think a heavy percentage of IRC thought I was nuts... This is one hell of a timeline.