Resident Pulser‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted
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TFW you spend $600 a month on a subscription iot toilet camera just to find out it’s been taking pictures from inside your toilet and sending them over the internet!
Why do people want a toilet cam in the first place?
Cancer and stuff
Like….butt stuff?
Sometimes I do, but nothing crazy, just a pinky or whatever.
Is this a low-key kink shame or genuine ignorance?
You’re saying it’s a kink thing?
Urine and stool samples can indicate a person’s health and evaluate some conditions, such as over/underhydration or a lack of fiber. If there’s blood in the urine, a picture could allow a doctor to evaluate whether it’s a UTI or a kidney stone.
I’d even say it’s a scenario where machine learning could be used to train a computer to recognize many of those scenarios and offer suggestions to improve one’s health.
Is that worth $600 and a subscription fee when you could learn to recognize those things yourself and take a picture for your doctor if it’s needed? Maybe if you’ve got money to burn.
It you have that much blood in urine or feces, you are in bad shape.
I just post my turds on insta for free assessment by close friends.
To be fair, that still may be end to end encrypted, just not the ends you were hoping for.
Rear end to backend
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WerbertSomething that starts as shit is distinctly not enshittified. It’s just shit. Don’t muddy the term.
shittification.
https is end to end
surely, once I read this article, I’ll find they implemented ssl
edit:
as I suspected, Kohler is one of the ends of the e2ee. and it is implemented. what is the news here exactly
Https is the transit. End to end encrypted means it’s encrypted before, during, and after transit. Ie the data at rest would/should be encrypted
They also said they decrypt after transit before they encrypt at rest, so it’s not encrypted in between and they can look at your data. So it’s not e2e if you want both ends to be you.
Absolutely not. E2EE means it’s encrypted from end to end. If I send data and I’m also the person to receive it on my app to inspect it, I’m both ends and the data should not be decryptable in between by anybody else if it’s advertised as e2ee. Zero knowledge on the other hand doesn’t mean that you transfer information securely but that you can prove that you have some information without it ever even being sent.
That’s not what end to end encryption means. All encrypted transmissions are not end to end encrypted.
if Kohler is the other end of your transmission, and the data is encrypted til they decrypt it, it’s e2ee. if you disagree, try explaining why.
Because that’s plainly not what end to end encrypted means. That’s just HTTPS.
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.
Kohler calling it E2EE is still disingenuous as fuck regardless of my above hypothetical, however.
Again, nope. Not what end to end encryption means. That’s just HTTPS.
Waiting for the first leaked celebrity poop.
Wait… this is a thing? I never thought someone would actually make this when it’s been the butt of many gags in the media.
I like how they refer to BO as a administration tool when really it was an exploit tool that had the side effect of some nifty administration ability,
It was significantly more reliable than sub7, which usually was itself infected.
toilet. camera.
ummm… no thanks
xvertigoxDon’t forget there’s a monthly sub too! You can pay every month to have an AI train on your shit.
If it was all local it could really improve societies health. I’d kinda rather something like that be 100% local though, no internet access.
What could they possibly tell me about my health by visually inspecting my shit? I see the website mentions detecting blood, but pretty sure I can do that too…
it can read your future… it’s kinda like tea leaves, but shittier
I read pool leaves. I stand on your roof and tell you your future.
DasusThe colour can say a lot of different things than just showing blood in your stool.
Also, if you have red blood in your toilet after shitting, it’s probably a popped hemorrhoid, but if your shit is black and tarry, that’s digested blood, could be from an upper GI-bleed.
If your shit is orange/yellowish and floaty, youre clearly not absorbing fat correctly for some reason.
There’s all sorts of things you can tell from shit. I’ve actually logged hundreds of photos of shit to an e-mail address (because I want to store them but not in my phone’s gallery).
I’m waiting on going to a good gastroenterologist hopefully.
But idk if I’d trust an ai analysing them, but proper doctors should be able to.
Would you consider spending $600 plus $7/month for this? (Assuming it was actually secure not like this one)
You asked about what they could possibly tell about your health from your excrement, not what my monthly budget is…
No, I know. I didn’t see any possible market for a product like this, but you shared you’re already doing what this product does, but manually. So I was wondering how much value you see here.
I imagine a lot more people would benefit from passive monitoring of poop than just I.
I pretty much figured out my issue and now I’ve just been documenting it because the doctors genuinely believe the opposite of whatever I tell them, so I have to have photographic evidence and even that doesn’t usually help. (Finnish healthcare sucks. Is the price bad? No, it’s free. Does it achieve anything? Also no. Especially when it comes to mental health.
The size, shape, consistency, color are all telling of something going on.
This is straight from The Onion
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x00zWhat we’re looking for is “zero-knowledge storage”. If it’s anything else we can just ignore the whole “encryption” marketing. That’s because claiming “end-to-end encryption” is still semantically valid if it’s transit only and they are the other end.
Doesn’t end to end also mean at rest?
But at rest still doesn’t matter as they’ll own the key unless it’s zero knowledge like you said.
The D Quuuuuillit does not. end to end encryption and point to point encryption are two ways of delivering an encrypted message to a destination. a point to point encrypted message has a message and header that are decrypted by every node in the network to determine where to route it next. an end to end encrypted message has its header and body encrypted separately such that only the sender and recipient see the body, but the nodes can read the header for routing. encrytion at rest just means that the message, once saved to disk, is encrypted
End-to-end means a path from point A to point B.
End-to-end encryption could definitely include at rest encryption, but only as part of the path that isn’t one of the ends. An example would be where a service like WhatsApp stores your message until it can be delivered to the other contact. End-to-end includes “zero knowledge storage” in this example because WhatsApp can not view your message. You are one end and your contact is the other end. The data is stored encrypted at rest (going trough their servers) because their server is neither end. This is literally why end-to-end encryption exists.
In the case of the smart toilet storage, you are not both ends. Instead you are one end and the storage provider is the other end. The transit is still end-to-end encrypted but it does not imply “zero knowledge storage”. They use the term end-to-end encryption because they transfer the data to their servers without people being able to intercept it. And that’s semantically correct.
Ah, that makes it clear how it may or may not include at rest.
Thanks!