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Re:I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again by oceanplexian on Sunday May 07, 2023 @02:54PM (#35854424)
My smart home stuff is all Z-Wave and my oldest devices are going on 10 years now. A light switch doesn’t need to be maintained or updated. I guess a hacker could drive up to my house with a laptop and a SDR, reverse engineer the protocol and then, I guess, turn my lights on and off? That’s a security tradeoff I’m willing to accept.
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Re:I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again by thayne on Monday May 08, 2023 @10:41PM (#35869615)
Far more likely, is compromised devices are used as part of a botnet to DDoS a target, or as a stepping stone to getting to a more valuable target.
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