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My Nest thermostat keeps wanting to enable two-step authentication. No thank you.
MFA for Smart Home devices is a really good idea given the security problems they present. You’re not locking each thermostat adjustment, you’re locking the ability to log in on a device to adjust the thermostat.
A Nest doesn’t have to be connected to a network, at all. They’re wired to your climate system the same way as a dumb thermostat. If you don’t need remote control of your temperature–and I’m gonna be real here, does anyone need remote control of the climate system?–disconnect it from the network.
It’s a dial that turns your temperature up and down. I haven’t adjusted mine since, like, August.
I wasn’t aware you could use a Nest without an account. If that’s possible, absolutely no need for MFA. If you use a throwaway account and don’t connect the device to a network, then there’s no reason to pay the premium for the device.
Whether or not the device is connected to a network has little bearing on securing the account. Usually you’re getting a smart thermostat to control it remotely or for a savings program with your power company which requires at least the account be connected. You don’t want that to be exposed ergo you want MFA.
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Drink Mt Dew® authentication can to proceed
Please take verification shit
Mt Dew was not detected in your last shit’s scan please drink verification can before your next bowel movement.
You just have to weigh your own shit once… there’s even a poop-knife included in case it’s to massive for your scale.
Note that this was a comedian
I don’t get the obsession with ‘smart’ devices given all they seem to do is overcomplicate simple designs that have worked just fine for decades - in addition to opening them up to abuse or corporate surveillance. The smartest device I own is my Pixel 8, and I barely even use it unless I need to make a call or message someone. I won’t even buy a post-2014 car purely because they just contain too much tech I’ll never use and don’t want (not to mention the privacy concerns with cellular data transmission and telemetry.)
