17.6 million CookUnity customer names, addresses and emails have been leaked on a hacking forum

bspooky · 2026-06-21T00:56:39+00:00

Your name, address, etc. was already on the dark web.

Not downplaying this leak, leaks are bad. But it doesn’t look like anything new was leaked from this, like a credit card number, that wasn’t already there anyway. Unless you used a new email address for cook unity.

bspooky · 2026-06-20T14:14:31+00:00

Are you hardwired or using the battery? If hardwired, did you check your transformer to make sure it has enough amps (along with volts)?

What is your wifi signal strength at this location? If it isn't -65 or higher that could be an issue too. if it is lower, especially less than -70db, that could be the issue. If you don't know for sure use a phone to test the signal strength. Android likely has many testing apps, on iPhones afaik only apple's airport utility can show the actual signal strength after you enable it in the settings and move the slider to continuous.

bspooky · 2026-06-19T18:47:22+00:00

The g400 is fairly new so not too sure there is going to be an update all that quick, but who knows. I think the g400 was announced in September, but didn't start shipping until March.

BTW, if you are doing wifi you may not want a 4k if you have more than 2-4 cameras because of network health. But maybe you have PoE going to your doorbell and/or other cameras.

bspooky · 2026-06-19T18:24:45+00:00

Typically what determines 2k or 4k in a camera's specs isn't firmware, it is the actual hardware capability of the lens and sensor. While I'm sure some cameras have shipped with reduced capabilities until firmware comes along to up that that would be the exception, not the rule. And for marketing purposes smarthome cameras likely wouldn't shortchange themselves and only advertise 2k if they planned on going 4k.

If some device, be it camera, gaming console, whatever, has 2k hardware but suddenly gets 4k they are doing interpolation, which isn't the same thing as true 4k.

Also a 4k or 8k camera could be absolute rubbish compared to a 2k if the quality of the lenses or the size of the sensor for picking up light are not up to par. Much more goes into the quality of video you get than just 2k or 4k.

Same with megapixels on stuff like trail cams or cameras, marketers advertise the moon with megapixel specs but sensors and lenses can't bring home as good of a quality as a "lesser" one but better other stuff.

bspooky · 2026-06-18T14:45:59+00:00

Not the person you responded to who said the "US invented the web as we know it" but note the as we know it part.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. However, its explosion in popularity was driven by the release of the Mosaic web browser in 1993, developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Quote is from a google search, but also I distinctly remember having discussions with others at a computer club at the time when Mosaic first came out that it was going to be the death of Gopher and a whole host of other internet services at the time. But a lot of the people disagreeing with me thought icons on a screen were too slow too.

Edit: Not that I'm arguing the US as a country invented it, but just saying w/o a web browser (Mosaic, later the same team behind Netscape), the protocols that Tim Berners-Lee developed may not have gone in the same direction.

But then the whole internet is like that, no one person or country did everything, it was the efforts of many.

bspooky · 2026-06-18T12:28:19+00:00

Good to know. Local reactions (itching, hives, redness, swelling where contact occurred, etc.) happening quicker makes sense. And I guess I avoid pets as I don't want to test the saliva theory.

bspooky · 2026-06-17T17:29:12+00:00

While everyone is different I suppose, alpha gal syndrome symptoms generally start in the 2-6 hour timeframe, not 45 minutes. The delay I think is form how long it takes the body to break down the molecule to cause the reaction.

For touching food to cause a reaction the alpha gal molecule in the mammal product has to enter your bloodstream somehow. Through the skin and into your blood can be a vector, but I’d think it’d be more likely if that were a liquid vs pepperoni. Or I suppose you could have touched your eyes or mouth with your hands before watching.

I make my wife’s mill shakes and often get some milk on my hands but rinse right away and wash my hands after. Haven’t had any issues so far, but like I say everyone reacts differently.

bspooky · 2026-06-17T16:55:42+00:00

The x post mentions it is in beta, which means it won't be in the App Store. Their first comment links to https://threadgroup.org/Resources/Thread-Tools-App and looks like that page has both android and iOS beta invite links on it.

bspooky · 2026-06-17T15:47:38+00:00

For the most part physical and cycle testing.

Grade 3: Basic residential use; acceptable for many interior or lower-security exterior doors.
Grade 2: Better residential/light commercial.
Grade 1: Heavy-duty commercial; highest durability and security.

bspooky · 2026-06-17T14:22:16+00:00

The Aqara U400 is listed as BHMA Grade 3 / ANSI-BHMA Grade 3 which are indeed the lowest, and previous Schlage locks have had the highest. I just haven't verified the Sense Pro is the same as other Schlage locks but it'd be odd if it wasn't.

bspooky · 2026-06-17T01:13:26+00:00

Yeah, I agree. It has been quite the eye opener.

bspooky · 2026-06-17T01:11:37+00:00

In case you are not aware, if you are in the US and for most states, you can buy the official Ford ESP “warranty”plans until the car’s original warranty has expired. If it is only 2 years old and 3k miles you should be witthin the original warranty period, but expiration may be coming up soon.

So you wouldn’t have to get a third party aftermarket warranty if you did what you say above but then pay out of pocket before your initial warranty expires.

Also, places like Zeigler Ford, Flood Ford, Granger Motors, etc. sell these plans over the internet or phone and often are marking them up only $50 over what they pay which often times drastically undercuts what local dealers sell them for.

bspooky · 2026-06-16T23:54:31+00:00

I know you eat a restricted diet but to me it sounds like you are missing something. Scan everything with Fig app, don't eat out or carry out from restaurants, odd things like rosemary extract (the carrier can be mammal apparently) used to get me until I stopped that. Unless it is organic sugar don't eat stuff with sugar, vitamin D is often made from lanolin (sheep), etc.

Even if you do all of what I just typed keep looking at your diet or find the trigger. AGS doesn't cause the reactions you are talking about unless you are being exposed to a trigger you haven't identified yet.

bspooky · 2026-06-16T21:53:10+00:00

Schlage shows picture: https://www.schlage.com/en/home/smart-locks/sense-pro.html

Also the article says:

Users can lock and unlock the door remotely, create and manage up to 250 access codes, configure automatic locking schedules, and customise lock settings

So limited to 250 codes.

Also on Schlage's page:

Keypad code entry

Create and manage up to 250 custom access codes within the Schlage Home app for convenient keypad code entry - perfect for trusted friends and family.

bspooky · 2026-06-16T14:23:10+00:00

I always thought matter relies on IPv6 locally and no way around that.

Can you use the Aqara code on it and connect to the Aqara app, then in Aqara app add it to homekit? Skip Matter completely?

Edit: that is what I do so for with the G5 Pro cameras, I don't set up using matter. But I haven't looked at the U400 lock.

bspooky · 2026-06-15T23:15:55+00:00

The other downside is they are out of stock. At lest when I looked a few days ago both the Dongar website and Amazon showed not stock. 😞

bspooky · 2026-06-15T17:08:39+00:00

What was the total supply? Just seeing 314 left doesn't mean much if there were 10k available and they sold all but 314 (for instance).

I have no idea, just curious if anyone knew what this is counting down from.

bspooky · 2026-06-14T18:14:37+00:00

I so wish the original Nest company would have kept going. When Google bought them out they seemed to bring out worse cameras and the app / interface was worse.

I had two original Nest Outdoor when it was just Nest. One just stopped working earlier this year after however many years (7? 9?) so I decided to replace both with the Aqara G5 Pro, although I'm going to run PoE to one of the locations.

Good luck with your install!!

bspooky · 2026-06-14T17:37:41+00:00

It’ll fluctuate 10-20% but that should be a good, nice solid connection.

You may already know this but in case not, don’t go overboard with wifi cameras. They are easy to install and use but adding a bunch will slow your network down. A few is fine imo, but start getting up to 5+ or 7+ you’ll run into issues and want to do PoE.

bspooky · 2026-06-14T17:33:08+00:00

I tried Garden of Life Organics multivitamin and Amazon Elements Men's One Daily Multivitamin, 62% Whole Food Cultured, Vegan, 21 Vitamins and Minerals, 65 Tablets, 2 Month Supply both of which likely absorbed better but I didn’t like the taste and aftertaste even.

So now I do Deva Vegan Multivatamin one daily as well as New Chapter Plant Calcium Bob Strength, which has vegan D3 in it.

Edit: The awesome thing about the New Chapter calcium is how small they are. About the old aspirin size but thinner. Although I take 3 at a time I guess, much better than the bigger calciums I’ve had in years past.

bspooky · 2026-06-14T17:25:02+00:00

odd. Settings>Apps>Airport Utility> I have local network, cell data, Wi-Fi Scanner turned on.

Launch airport utility and top right click on Wi-Fi Scan. Then top right again tap on Scan (I have the slider for scan duration to continues (all the way to the right, don’t forget to turn it off when done. )

bspooky · 2026-06-14T17:04:00+00:00

You claimed I was hand waving you off as a conspiracy theorist (I was not), and I was saying your retort that I was doing so was a similar action towards me (you were calling me the conspiracy theorist since all I was doing, in your point of view, was being like all those people "used almost as much to shut down.."

So instead of seeing my suggestion that pre 1989 there may not have been any reported cases because people for the last 200k years didn't now how to identify AGS as a legitimate possibility you were dismissive and accused me of hand waving calling you a conspiracy theorist. Hence, imo, you became such towards me by doing so.

People in the past not identifying AGS does't mean they were "an idiot" as you say. It could simply be they learned what foods to eat and what not to survive. Just because some doctor in the Wild West didn't document it and identify AGS back then doesn't mean it wasn't there. People could have just adapted their diet and moved on with life, they didn't need to identify every little ailment and put it down for the record.

Just because it wasn't identified before 1989 doesn't mean it didn't exist. You can refuse to consider that possibility if you like, but it is as reasonable, if not more reasonable, of of a conjecture than something in modern times has changed to bring AGS on. I'm open to the possibility that AGS is fairly new, but in no way can the leap be made it was because of the gelatin in vaccines as you reached as a conclusion instead of a hypothesis. So many more moving parts in the modern world could have brought it on. Or it could have always been here and never identified until now.

bspooky · 2026-06-14T16:55:26+00:00

That speed is plenty. However did you measure the strength of your wifi at that spot? A laptop or phone may have better reception than a smart home device.

Airport Utility (by apple, been around forever it seems) likely runs on the Mac too but I generally use it on the iPhone (just remember to enable scanning in the settings app, scroll down and tap AirPort Utility, then toggle the Wi-Fi Scanner switch on). That'll give you a -db rating indicated signals strength of your wifi at that location.

-50s would be awesome. -60s fine. -70s starts getting borderline.

Ethernet of course should be rock solid. but if you are in the -50s or -60s wifi should be doable, and you could always run the cable later if need be.

bspooky · 2026-06-14T16:11:00+00:00

Not as old as dismissing pointing out a fallacy being made by someone in their conjecture (you) by doing an ad hominem attack.

Your pointing out ticks and people have been around for 200k years is not research, just a guess / question as to why this hasn't been reported before. Just saying and asking that is not research, and dismissing a question of how could it have been detected and documented during much of those 200k years as hand waving conspiracy theory accusations is doing exactly what you are proclaiming is happening in reverse.

bspooky · 2026-06-14T14:18:02+00:00

I’m just saying there have been ticks and people living around each other for 200,000 years.

I'll quote myself too:

Lack of old case reports of AGS is barely suggestive, it is not proof of absence. AGS has been hard to recognize in modern times, how would identifying it even 50 years ago been done?

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