The devices use 128-bit AES encyption to ensure that unexpected "foreign" devices cannot sniff the data stream. Then there's a simple button to tell all the other connected devices how to read the data stream.
Doesn't this rather defeat the object of having encryption in the first place? After all, if I don't know there are foreign devices connected on the same mains loop as I'm using, then how can I know to ask my neighbour to unplug them while I update the security of my own devices?
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AES security misses the mark completely
So, let me see...
The devices use 128-bit AES encyption to ensure that unexpected "foreign" devices cannot sniff the data stream. Then there's a simple button to tell all the other connected devices how to read the data stream.
Doesn't this rather defeat the object of having encryption in the first place? After all, if I don't know there are foreign devices connected on the same mains loop as I'm using, then how can I know to ask my neighbour to unplug them while I update the security of my own devices?
Sigh.
Chris