Site is down for me. archive.org works: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20171124170013/https://www.contextis.com/blog/dont-feed-them-after-midnight-reverse-engineering-the-furby-connect" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20171124170013/https://www.contex...</a>
All it takes is a single goatse to appear on one child's furby's eyes or on a demo unit in a shop and the brand is ruined. I think they need to reconsider that response.
Why don't they just enable basic Bluetooth security features instead of saying that it's too hard to exploit and leaving it at that?<p>Excellent write-up though.
The company response stated:<p>> A tremendous amount of engineering would be required to reverse engineer the product as well as to create new firmware.<p>Which implies they failed to understand what they were being told. The engineering required to do this exploit has already been done, so it doesn't matter how hard it is. Once it's been done, it's been done.