‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
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Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers’ data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    From the perspective of the Kohler toilet camera being the sender and the Kohler shit-reviewing service being the recipient, TLS can technically be end-to-end encryption. As long as the shit-reviewing server is doing the TLS termination itself—and not Cloudflare or a reverse proxy—that meets the definition insofar as only the two communicating parties having the ability to see the cleartext. That’s assuming the server has disk encryption and no employee has access to it while the disk is unlocked.

    Kohler calling it E2EE is still disingenuous as fuck regardless of my above hypothetical, however.