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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by chasd00 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:19AM (#21825688)
what do people mean when they say security for smart home devices? if the "launch ICBM" port is open on a device on your LAN doesn't an attacker still have to traverse your router to get to it? Otherwise, an attacker would have to get access to your LAN. Is something like that what you mean?
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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by Angostura on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:26AM (#21825767)
People would prefer

1. Their lightbulbs to not be co-opted into DDoS attacks 2. That their cameras are only used by them 3. That others can't control their devices 4. That their devices receive security updates 5. That their devices don't contain back-doors 6. That their devices can be used when isolated from the Internet

... I imagine.

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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by mattferderer on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:08AM (#21826259)
Well said
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