My household's day-to-day practical worries about Smart Everything are approximately:
Is the Smart Refrigerator going to get compromised and start sending spam? (we don't have a smart refrigerator, partly because expensive and the current one is fine, partly because this)
Is the Smart Lightbulb going to DoS the network? (Some unfortunate person traced the flood on their home network to a rogue lightbulb, as linked by the Internet of Shit Twitter account)
What happens when the Smart Lock manufacturer goes out of business? What happens when the internet goes out during the ice storm?
At my old apartment I had a beautiful suite of moderately smart switches controlling lights, but it's somewhat harder to orchestrate the light schedules for 3 people than for 1. Plus the wiring in this house is faintly terrifying.
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Is the Smart Refrigerator going to get compromised and start sending spam? (we don't have a smart refrigerator, partly because expensive and the current one is fine, partly because this)
Is the Smart Lightbulb going to DoS the network? (Some unfortunate person traced the flood on their home network to a rogue lightbulb, as linked by the Internet of Shit Twitter account)
What happens when the Smart Lock manufacturer goes out of business? What happens when the internet goes out during the ice storm?
At my old apartment I had a beautiful suite of moderately smart switches controlling lights, but it's somewhat harder to orchestrate the light schedules for 3 people than for 1. Plus the wiring in this house is faintly terrifying.