Does that mean if your laptop is on your network, they can control and access that?
Beyond the basics, what does access to a device on your home network grant them? Any other device connected to that home network - smart fridges, smart stoves, smart washing machines, laptops - is typically routable via your bed. The (in)security of those devices is now entrusted to random Eight Sleep engineers.
It means that they can effectively use it as a VPN to access your private network, if like most, it is on the same network as other devices.
Really though, that’s of little concern compared to their sale of sensitive customer data
can effectively use it as a VPN to access your private network
I’m dumb. I still don’t know what that means. When they can access your network, does that mean they can make copies from your printer or does that mean they can access your hard drives?
If you have your HDD shared with local network devices without a password, then yes they can access those HDDs. Not sure about printers, but if the printer is not locked down some how, they can potentially access it (e.g. print or scan documents that are in the scanner), albeit I haven’t used a printer at home in decades so I may be wrong.
It’s not a good thing to have randoms (even a nominally legit company) to have open 24/7 access to your local network.
Thank you for the explanation, so it’s as bad as I thought. How do I know what apps and programs have access to my network?
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