Agreed, as far as I could tell the thread border router is designed to be opaque to traffic traversing it.

I have a huge issue with this. The fact that zwave/zigbee cannot connect to the internet is why I have so many in my home and I'm not as concerned about them.

I think I remember looking at the vendors that were involved in Thread and none were privacy conscious. Apple, Google, Amazon, major Semiconductor manufacturers, Samsung, Yale. No-one who actually promotes privacy in standards.

I'm gonna guess Thread will be a privacy nightmare with the internet access making it no better than wifi. Lame.