Overview
- First- and second-generation Nest Learning Thermostats lost remote control, status checks, and updates after Google ended support last month.
- Security researcher Cody Kociemba found the devices still send detailed information such as manual temperature changes, presence detection, sunlight exposure, temperature, humidity, ambient light, and motion.
- Kociemba discovered the logging after cloning Google's API for his open-source No Longer Evil project and then disabled receiving the incoming logs.
- Right-to-repair group FULU awarded its bounty to Kociemba and Team Dinosaur for restoring smart features to the unsupported thermostats.
- Google says unsupported devices will continue to report logs for issue diagnostics, and The Verge reported the company did not immediately provide further comment.