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user-inactivated · 2801 days ago · link · · parent · post: Seriously, we don’t need smartphone-controlled candles
The security on these things will be haphazard, thrown on at the last minute to make a bullet point on a PowerPoint slide. In 6-10 months or so, because people are not good with tech, reports will start trickling out that these candles leak WiFi passwords and act as an open relay. Identity will be stolen, spam bot networks will be set up, and everyone will wring their hands over the issue of connecting shit like this to the internet with minimal security constraints. That is the way all of the "Internet of things" seem to go.