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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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I was hoping for "easy to hack" as in it's your device and you can use it how you want for as long as you want. This probably means the opposite in most cases. I guess it's still helpful for labeling products to be suspicious of.
I'll bet this is designed to squash those products. They want you buying the locked down e-waste not something you can reflash and use how you want.
It may not be that sinister. Most companies intend for their "smart" products to be just smart enough for the average user and don't spend the money to support local control or anything else. I have some "smart" lamps that are worse than regular lamps unless you flash them with custom firmware. Some newer models of these lamps are more "secure" and can't be reflashed into something useful (seriously, who wants to talk to Alexa every time they want to turn on a lamp?).