From the smart door lock is cracked to see the industry development bottleneck

HC Security Network News Internet + physical interconnection technology development and prosperity, so that intelligent life concept gradually into our lives, smart door locks, and a series of intelligent smart home products are also subtle impact on our lives, but although smart The market prospects for door locks and smart homes are huge, but their development is not smooth.

Especially in terms of security, smart door locks have been criticized. In the DEFCON contest, two researchers, Anthony Rose and BenRamsey, showed us this again, and they easily hacked into 12 BLE Bluetooth smart door locks.

They found that some devices store passwords directly in plaintext, such as Quicklock and iBluLock locks. Anyone with a Bluetooth analyzer can easily invade these devices. There are also locks that are vulnerable to replay attacks, which means that an intruder can obtain data wirelessly when the device owner unlocks, and then replay the data to unlock it. Other attacks are more complicated, but they are not too difficult.

Other researchers have also discovered the vulnerability of the door lock. For example, the lock of August can be extracted from the paired mobile phone with a one-time key. The good news is that this vulnerability has been blocked. Even more tragic is that after they issued a vulnerability report to those smart lock vendors, only one responded, but it did not release a patch.

Sadly, for many devices, as long as the attacker can crack without using high-end equipment and tools, the tools used by Ramsey are cheap, adding up to less than $200.

Intelligent door lock is a kind of intelligent lock with human fingerprint as the identification carrier and means. It is the perfect crystallization of computer information technology, electronic technology, mechanical technology and modern hardware technology. The smart lock consists of two parts: electronic identification and control, and mechanical linkage system. The uniqueness and non-replicability of fingerprints seem to make smart locks the safest lock of any lock currently available.

At the same time, the advent of the smart home era has brought unlimited business opportunities to Chinese companies, especially anti-theft smart lock companies. Many brands have emerged in the past year, and market products have become more abundant. However, it was accompanied by the fact that the market's sales volume did not increase as expected, and the enthusiasm of consumers for smart locks did not occur. On the contrary, more and more companies are seen dead.

Then, some problems in the whole industry are highlighted, especially some traditional smart door lock enterprises, which ignore the characteristics of the market and the needs of users with the top ten smart lock brands, ignoring the essence of products and markets, Healthy development is very dangerous.

What causes people's trust in smart locks to be lower and lower? Xiao Bian believes that the fatal problems in the smart door lock industry are mainly concentrated in three aspects: security, stability, and experience.

1. For the door lock, safety is our most concerned topic.

From the smart door lock is cracked to see the development bottleneck of the smart home industry

The purpose of intelligence is only two: first, safer, more reliable; second, more convenient. Many smart door lock companies can make a big fuss in intelligence, and the loopholes in security guarantees are worrying. Intelligent security directly restricts the healthy development of this industry. If one of the 100 companies has a problem with security, the entire industry will affect it. When the same case goes wrong, the entire brand chain will also have an accident. It is understood that the smart lock products that claim to be the top ten brands on the market are very inadequate in the safety design of mechanical structures or the development of electronic information encryption and decryption and certification technology. If this problem is not corrected in time, China's smart locks The industry will once again become a backward industry with low prices, low quality and no trust.

2, more than enough function, insufficient stability

What is lacking in smart locks is not functionality, but stability. For example, once the smart door lock fails, how to open the door (although some models provide a traditional key as a backup solution)? In addition, the door lock is obviously a long-life device, people do not need to change often, but smart door lock Need to connect to the phone, but in the case of a one-year upgrade of the phone system, you can not fully guarantee the backward compatibility of the door lock. Of course, you may also encounter some unexpected situations in use, after all, it is not just a simple mechanical structure device.

There are many functions of the smart brand in the market, there are many ways to unlock the lock, and there are all ways to unlock the lock. What iris, face, fingerprint, secret, inductive unlocking... What is there, although the way to unlock it later can be as free as desired. Powerful, there is a big premise that stability must be done well, although the stability of electronic products is difficult to grasp, but stability does affect the long-term development of the brand. At present, there is no shortage of powerful products on the market, and the lack of stable products. To stabilize the product well, it is more costly and time-consuming than doing more functions. Often, companies only pay attention to the fancy function modules, while ignoring the stability of the functions.

3, pay attention to user experience is a quality marketing strategy

Transitional sales will ruin the smart lock industry. Remarketing and light user experience is a serious problem in the current smart door lock brand. A brand that ignores the user experience is hard to get recognition from users. At present, the biggest problem in the smart lock industry is that it would rather spend a lot of money to buy the fake rankings of the top ten brands, but they are not willing to spend money on the user experience. False crowdfunding, false functions, false prices, and false advertisements are all quickly consuming the credit of smart locks. Everyone has the same feeling: Searching for the top ten smart lock brands on the Internet, the number of ranking results is unclear, can't remember, one is better than a cow, in fact, there are very few good brands that users are satisfied with. This is a worrying and unhealthy market.

For the products that are still in the experimental stage, they started crowdfunding and started to sell. A batch of users became experimental products. Every day, there are new crowdfunding products, but the products after crowdfunding leave the users with complaints and resentment, and the brand's integrity is greatly questioned. The intelligent and omnipotent propaganda hurts more terrible, everything can be docked, what functions are available, and everything can be done behind the propaganda is not easy to use. The sense of staggering of the experience makes the user's trust in the industry disappear, of course, the entire industry is paying.

Lock is one of the best inventions of mankind, and it has privacy. However, it seems that it has not changed much for thousands of years until the "smart door lock" brought by the Internet of Things technology. In fact, it is necessary to install smart locks to ensure safety and convenience. This is also in line with the technological and fashionable life needs of the mainstream groups after the 80s and 90s. To solve these bottlenecks that restrict the development of the industry, we have reason to expect this promising sunrise market.

Editor in charge: Yao Yuze