Re:The smart home is flailing as a concept
by jjav on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:43PM
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> and probably become a serious privacy and security liability
Given the quality of IoT devices, they pretty much become a serious privacy and security liability the moment they are first turned on.
Agree on everything else though. There's a fundamental mismatch between parts of a house where the expected lifetime is measured in human generations vs. tech gadgets where the lifetime is months to a couple years before becoming throwaway.
Given the quality of IoT devices, they pretty much become a serious privacy and security liability the moment they are first turned on.
Agree on everything else though. There's a fundamental mismatch between parts of a house where the expected lifetime is measured in human generations vs. tech gadgets where the lifetime is months to a couple years before becoming throwaway.