[dangoor]

As noted in the update to the article, Ubiquiti was a victim of an extortion attempt from an employee. This is a pretty difficult attack to prevent.

[dont__panic]

Ah, that's a fair point. I guess at some level a sufficiently privileged employee can manage this in almost any system. But there's also some discussion of backdoors and inadequate access control in Ubiquiti's backend here that could concern privacy-minded folk.

[raesene9]

this is true but if the details in this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29456593 and others in that thread are to be believed, they have some serious security problems.