Oh I can give the people currently extorting public schools the keys to my home?
Sounds like an awesome and secure idea.
I’ll do that right after I drop my kids off at the awesome and secure summer camp program on Epstein Island.
… No it FUCKING may not
Absofuckinglutely not!
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Lol, no…why would I want this?
Why would anyone give Amazon a key to their home? People are dumb.
Most likely because they just don’t understand tech at all. It sounds cool and convenient and that’s enough.
Or, they just don’t give a damn. I know some of those too, and they make me shiver. How can one not care for at least some privacy…
Dont you see how smart and safe it is, you can use any device you want, just log into your account, and they totally won’t give your key to the government or leak it to anyone.
Yikes. I don’t log into many things, google most certainly isn’t one of them. Even IF they’d be secure-ish 😁
So ICE doesn’t have to break your door down?
Luckily i don’t live in weirdo-land, we don’t have ice, we have a real police 😉
Fucking no thanks
Always providing solutions in need of a problem
I was just looking for a way to give control whether I can go home or not to Google!
In completely unrelated news, Microsoft experienced an outage today and lots of things stopped working for lots of people.
So can my pockets, and anybody interested in gaining unfettered access to my home have to physically pry those from me.
Most people who are trying to gain physical access to your home would just pry it open, no worry about the keys.
Google Wallet and a “smart” lock wouldn’t save me from somebody with a crowbar and a can-do attitude either.
Nobody said it would, but no key would either. And that’s way more likely than someone stealing your credentials from a device. It doesn’t matter how your smart lock credentials are stored on a device nobody is trying to steal them so they can unlock your doors. Anyone who wants in your house will bypass the lock. This isn’t a defense of Google, it’s just pointing out that unless you’re a high value target in a movie this isn’t how people are getting in.
If google has a bunch of keys to people’s homes, it basically becomes an extremely valuable hacking target, it’s dumb to centralize this sort of thing, even if a non-evil, non-incompetent company were trying to do it (which is not the case, it’s Google)
Google already has a shitload of information way more valuable than that, they’re already a huge valuable target. We shouldn’t be giving them any info, house keys are the least of it. Also, Apple would be the target for burglars. Any thief sophisticated enough to steal electronic credentials for a burglary is smart enough to know the overwhelming majority of targets they want to hit are Apple users, not Android.
Um no. No. No. No
It’s funny that they’re announcing this now since the NFC version of this has been in the wild for… like a year now. I use it to get into the office, it’s pretty neat.
So like BLE credentials can get stored in Google wallet instead of having a separate app?
Ok.
But they needed years for even partial support of pkpass
