[KaiserPro]

The whole saga is just utterly insane.

Its the same people who shipped the "people counting" raspberry pi system with the bruno mars mp3s in them.

First they try and report the security consultants to the police, then they claim that they are too expensive to work with.

Then even more bizarrely they launch a halfarsed sock puppet campaign using the CEO's wife's account.

Then they start publishing reviews on their own staff, including private health info.

Just utterly bat shit insane

[Limb]

Wow the thread about the raspberry pi system was a wild ride. For anyone else who wants to give it a read: https://twitter.com/OverSoftNL/status/1357296455615197184

[duskwuff]

Reading about FootfallCam, I can't shake the feeling that someone gave the project to a single, heavily inexperienced developer, the developer quit, and the manufacturer shipped the contents of that developer's home directory, as-is, as the final product. And the marketing was written before the product was developed, based on what they wanted the product to do, rather than what it actually did.

[bsenftner]

Looks to me like some developer somewhere made a RaspberryPI camera prototype and some dumb money ran with it creating a marketing campaign and getting the prototype in the market as if it were a complete solution.

[carwyn]

There's an article over at TheRegister related to the FootFallCam saga:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/footfallcam_twitter_k...

[walrus01]

People should mirror this whole twitter thread and its content to use as a literal textbook example of everything not to do.

[wackget]

Yeah... I didn't fully appreciate just how insane this is because the information's scattered all over the place. Then I read the Register article and a collated Twitter thread... and yeah, it's insane...

This company has absolutely no business being anywhere near security/software/hardware development.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/footfallcam_twitter_k...

https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1359582048260743169

[Judgmentality]

> First they try and report the security consultants to the police, then they claim that they are too expensive to work with.

Hahaha what? Are you saying they paid these guys, then reported them to the police, and then the police found a contract and they just said "well they're too expensive!"

> Then even more bizarrely they launch a halfarsed sock puppet campaign using the CEO's wife's account.

Sure, why not?

> Then they start publishing reviews on their own staff, including private health info.

I am so confused. I read the article and still don't understand this comment.