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in merica you have to shoot the bulb out with a shotgun

(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:28, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)
Well duh

(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:32, Reply)
Someone linked a vid on fb yesterday where some dozy yank had wired his house wrong
the light switches behaved oddly and he could turn a light on and off and alter the brightness of it by plugging a hairdryer in a nearby socket. Surprised the place didn't burn down.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:33, Reply)
it's called FREEDOM you goshdarn COMMUNIST

(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:37, Reply)
Lightly posted a really funny article about how this german bloke built a SmartHouse about 5 years ago...
... but naturally there was no Standards for it like they're building today (Zigbee/HomeKit/etc), and suddenly everything stopped working and going crazy.

In the end it turned out that a blown lightbulb was DoSing his whole house.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:38, Reply)
I was just going to go look for that link
shan't bother now.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:44, Reply)
I hacked my Tado system this week too.
They have a mobile-first website written AngularJS, so I Prettified it's JS which exposed all it's API calls.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:50, Reply)
Filthy

(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:51, Reply)
Only a bit,
When I told their Twitter, I was supprised they didn't react a bit stronger, because one of the params is a numerical "ClientID". I don't think that's entirely secure, I didn't test it against the cookie, but if they're accepting that, then the odds are I can change other people's heating.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:55, Reply)
and this is why the "Internet of Things" is a dumb idea
By all means have stuff in your house talk to each other, but ffs air gap it from the Internet at all costs.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 10:01, Reply)
If it's done right, then it's OK.
On the Philips Hue system, every time you use a new app, you have to phsyically press a button on the base-station.

This year at WWDC we'll see HomeKit implimented properly, now that manufacturers have had a year to get certifications from Apple - I think that'll do the job properly.

NFC on iOS is locked down due to ApplePay, but it can 'unlock doors' in hotels, so I have no idea how actually locked down it is.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 10:20, Reply)
Not convinced by any means
Even smart TVs are phoning out unencrypted now, pisspoor security through cost-cutting doesn't make me want to touch any of it with a bargepole.
(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 10:28, Reply)
5 years ago? maybe further back than 5 years.

(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:48, Reply)
Can't remember exactly, but far back enough that he needed basiclly to build a server-farm in his basement.

(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:51, Reply)
ha ha ha hardwired smart homes

(, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 10:00, Reply)

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