Have you ever put something on the internet that you thought was sure to spread like banterous wildfire? A 10/10 joke that will go viral NQA, only to be sitting there, head in your hands and hitting the refresh button wondering why the likes and RTs just aren't rolling in?
It happens to me almost twice a day. On a good day. The only way to resolve the situation is to delete the post and entirelydeny its existence.
Fine, no harm done, a little dent to the confidence but that can easily be repaired. My mum still loves me.
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But imagine developing a product that is so shit and made someone so angry you had to delete all traces of it from a website.
That is what happened with the AuYou Wi-Fi Switch. Apparently it was designed to let users remotely turn their home sockets on and off.
However, Matthew Garrett disagrees. According to The Verge, he is a security developer at CoreOS who also buys Internet of Things devices on Amazon and writes security reviews about them.
He was less than impressed with the AuYou Wi-Fi Switch.
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In fact, the review was so scathing that AuYou pulled its product listing a week later. It's unclear if they did this because they want to fix the issue or if they just want to re-list it without such a flamboyant review at the bottom of the page.
Starting the review, Matthew wrote: "There's a lot to like about this hardware, but unfortunately it's entirely overwhelmed by everything there is to hate about it."
He continued:"In summary, by default [AuYou Wi-Fi Switch] is stupendously insecure, there's no reasonable way to make it secure, and if you do make it secure then it's much less useful than it's supposed to be." He added: "Don't buy it."
As funny as this is, Matthew is a real hero for exposing a device that potentially puts people's homes at risk.
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He also has a great name.
Words by Matthew Cooper
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