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Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security

posted by martyb on Friday November 16 2018, @08:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the watch-out-for-who-is-watching-you dept.

takyon writes:

Mozilla releases privacy report on which holiday gadgets are too creepy

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Mozilla has released a privacy report on some popular gift options, which tells you if a gadget meets basic security standards like encrypting data and offering a clear privacy policy.

While the list isn't comprehensive, it looked at 70 popular items and found that a little over 25 of them meet Mozilla's minimum security standards. The most secure gadgets: the Nintendo Switch, a Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit that mixes wand magic and teaching kids how to code, and an open-source smart speaker called Mycroft Mark 1.

[...] According to Mozilla, the creepiest gadget out there is the FREDI Baby Monitor, which has a history of easily being hacked and a default password of "123" that you're not prompted to change. The FREDI Baby Monitor also lacks a privacy policy, and its company doesn't push out security updates to its devices.

Also at Engadget.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 16 2018, @10:34PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday November 16 2018, @10:34PM (#762870) Homepage

    And more directly related to them, my gripe (besides their SJW bullshit) is that in their Firefox browser they are deliberately hiding menu items or using odd behavior to make it harder for you to configure it for "don't remember anything" mode. Just when you think you've disabled it all you open a new tab and get "top sites" of specific places you've visited and to disable that you have to do some weird shit like toggle the menu item twice to enable it to be disabled.

    This is the typical hypocrite mentality of the liberal cocksucker. Mozilla caring about privacy is like Bay Area liberals caring about the poor, even though the U.N. has declared the most progressive city in the world one big human rights violation.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @11:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 16 2018, @11:10PM (#762891)

    You still sound stupid.