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Amazon FireTv Cube scares the shit out of me (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I just received a new Fire TV cube gen 3, because my old one is malfunctioning. I know, I hate these devices myself, but it's the only option right now, since a new version of the Nvidia shield isn't coming in the foreseeable future.

So, I plugged in the power chord and the HDMI cable into the cube.

When it booted up it showed a screen that it's downloading the newest update. At first I thought this must be some typo-bug on the initial boot steps, because I haven't even connected it to the internet yet, neither via cable nor did I go through the wifi setup.

After the update has finished, I was greeted with my real name and the cube indeed had the actual WiFi settings!

WTF?! How's that even possible?

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Can't this all be prevented by the already connected devices checking if the new device matches a newly purchased, not yet set up device in your purchase history? Really slim chance someone eavesdrops on its id and retransmits fast enough to hijack the setup

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Possibly.

    A) has amazon actually implemented such a system?

    B) do you trust it's functioning correctly? Both now and for the foreseeable future.(would/could you even know if it wasn't?)

    Side note: does this feature work with factory reset and/or re-sold devices?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    I don't see why they wouldn't. No way to verify I guess but it's really hard to think Amazon wouldn't come up with a system equivalent or better than what I did while reading this thread.

    I imagine it'd be a one time convenience thing, or maybe you could open amazon and click 'set up this device again' or something and it reactivates

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