Amazon Key: Amazon launches in-home delivery service called Amazon Key, powered by a camera and smart lock
5Wow, what could possibly go wrong?
I’m thinking of so many ways this could be hacked, socially hacked, or abused.
Plus Amazon’s ubiquity means that an effective hack could create wide vulnerability.
But I’m sure Amazon has thought of all the possibilities and dealt with them in full. Right?
And no new vulnerabilities will be introduced, discovered, or created. Right?
Now there are some possibilities here for people in areas with high housing costs.
Just get access to the Key program, as a legitimate and hardworking Amazon employee or contractor, and then live secretly in a variety of Amazon customer’s homes!
Cool!
/giphy "I’ve got a bad feeling about this"
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Is it compatible with security systems and mean dogs?
They’d be much better off creating some Amazon-branded outdoor storage lockers that keep the elements out and can be bolted to your porch. Person could create a unique code to open or something while 'zon would have a master key.
@medz I had to return a broken thing to Amazon. We have lockers a mile from my house. They were all full so I had to take it to UPS.
I would much rather go to the Fas-Mart than let them in my house.
More lockers, guys!
@sammydog01
What are these lockers? FedEx lockers?
I never receive mail and shipments at home anyway, so I don’t know this stuff.
Besides, assuming (hypothetically) that this service is safe, secure, non-hackable, and non-gameable, how many of us really want an Amazon connected employee or contractor - or video feed - to see/record any part of the interior of our residence?
At least when you answer the door in person, you can to some degree control what they see.
@f00l
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=6442600011
@f00l Just like that photo but ours are outside a Fas-Mart and are accessible 24/7 (I assume). You can do returns there too unless they’re full.
Here is the link to the Amazon “service announcement product page”.
https://www.amazon.com/b?&node=17285120011&ref=key_ods_gw_brls_tglne_v2&pf_rd_p=845f90a3-66fe-41f2-a2a7-bd26f9ccc05e&pf_rd_r=Q9XA7YPMN2C5XPPJWHCG
Isn’t is nice how so many people and situations from the world of marketing and promotional materials look so clean, well-cared-for, serene, contented, in-control?
Gosh, if I could only be like them.
@f00l Those laptops must be at least 10 years old, though. They can’t be that contented.
@TheFLP
Perhaps not? Those are marketing photos from the past, but those images are from the heads of the industry creative people.
So, timeless. Don’t you think?
Amazon needs access to your house so someone can plug those Echos back in, and change the batteries in the listening devices they have/will install all over your house (because you ordered new smoke alarms, bug repellers, and surveillance cameras recently, right?) Oh, and put the food you ordered in the 'fridge, because they are just thoughtful like that.
Sounds like a set-up for letters to Penthouse
@sammydog01
Can an Amazon delivery person ever be as hot as the mythical poolboy/poolgirl?
Perhaps they can make a sexy and charming “meet cute” romantic comedy for Amazon Prime Video Productions.
We had our furnace/air conditioner replaced. It’s in the front hallway. There is nothing between the furnace and the attic. We have cats.
I told the guys to keep the door to the furnace closed if they weren’t standing there. They did not.
Cat in attic. Customer extremely pissed off. I got the cat down and for the duration of their work, I sat there, watching them. I did not trust them to not walk away from the open door.
When we had our trees trimmed, even though we made sure all of the cats were inside, my husband told the boss if any of the cats got out of the yard because someone left a gate open, he wouldn’t pay them. (We’re talking thousands of dollars here.)
And he was dead serious. I thought they were just really conscientious. I didn’t realize there was a reason.
Would I trust someone I didn’t know opening my door when I wasn’t home to not let the cats out?
Nope.