This is EXACTLY what I envisioned when those ads for Smart Homes popped up on TV.
When 'Smart Homes' Get Hacked: I Haunted A Complete Stranger's House Via The Internet
“I can see all of the devices in your home and I think I can control them,” I said to Thomas Hatley, a complete stranger in Oregon who I had rudely awoken with an early phone call on a Thursday morning.
He and his wife were still in bed. Expressing surprise, he asked me to try to turn the master bedroom lights on and off. Sitting in my living room in San Francisco, I flipped the light switch with a click, and resisted the Poltergeist-like temptation to turn the television on as well.
“They just came on and now they’re off,” he said. “I’ll be darned.”
“These companies are considering the home network as a fortress,” says Crowley. “In most cases, it’s anything but.”
I think that this makes a good case that maybe it's time we stop having to keep up with the Jones. What are these Smart Home services all about? Are they mostly for working parents to look in on their now forced-to-be latch key kids whose parents have to work, even 2, 3, and 4 part-time jobs?
American Exceptionalism!
May I suggest neighborhood cooperation? It takes a village is taking on more importance in our new horrid work-challenged country.
Whatever.
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