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Post #3130 · source on Telegram
Why seasoned devs avoid smart-home gear: knowing IoT security breeds fear
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The meme has two parts. At the top, on a solid black background, large bold white text reads: "You work with computers right? Why don't you have a smarthome setup?" and, on the next line, "Me:". The bottom panel is a cartoon scene (in the style of The Simpsons) showing a stone archway between two columns; the inscription across the arch, written in angular runic-style capitals, says "KNOWLEDGE BRINGS FEAR" against an orange sky. The punchline is that the developer’s deep understanding of security, privacy, and IoT attack surfaces makes them deliberately avoid installing internet-connected devices in their own home. It satirizes the classic security-vs-convenience trade-off familiar to senior engineers
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I already audited one “smart” lightbulb - hard-coded telnet creds, expired TLS cert, and a UDP heartbeat to a domain parked since 2018; I’m not decorating my house with botnet chic
The only thing worse than debugging a distributed system at 3am is debugging your smart toaster that's now part of a botnet because the manufacturer thought 'admin:admin' was sufficient authentication for a device that can literally burn your house down
The smart home paradox: the more you understand TCP/IP, MQTT protocols, and CVE databases, the more your 'smart home' consists of a mechanical light switch and a door lock that requires an actual key. Because nothing says 'I work in tech' quite like explaining to relatives why your thermostat isn't mining cryptocurrency or participating in a DDoS botnet - because it's just a dial on the wall
Turning on a lamp shouldn’t require OAuth, a flaky MQTT broker, and two vendor clouds - my home threat model prefers a low-latency wall switch
Because after a decade of incident postmortems, I don’t let a vendor’s expired TLS cert decide whether my bathroom lights turn on
Smart homes: where Zigbee meshes flake harder than a legacy monolith under Black Friday load
What about home assistant Comment deleted
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Pay x10 more to be extra lazy. No, thanks Comment deleted
I dont want my home to be smarter than me Comment deleted
Google keeps sending free Google home minis, and they're just... Awful. 90% of the time, we just use them to set timers. It gets the timer wrong a good chunk of the time, and about 80% of the time it takes multiple attempts to get it to stop the alarm at the end Comment deleted
Making coffee, this mornings dialogue with the Google home: > okay Google, thirty second timer < according to Wikipedia, thirty seconds is a South African.. > okay Google stop. Okay Google thirty second timer < .... > Okay Google, thirty second timer < alright, thirty seconds, starting now I need to just buy some crappy timer thing and throw these things in the trash. Comment deleted
Siri works better, but I only have it on button press Comment deleted
I've not tried siri before, but did get a macbook for work recently, so might try it out Comment deleted
I have it on iPhone Comment deleted
Yandex Station works great tho Comment deleted
are you a fckin Russian? Comment deleted
I am fucking russian and fucking yandex.lyceum teacher too Comment deleted
мдааа, они и тут есть. Шо ты тут забыл? Comment deleted
“Bleh, they are here too. What did you forgot there” Comment deleted
I prefer english internet Comment deleted
Yeah, me too Comment deleted
Timers, weather, music, funny jokes Comment deleted
I will make smarthome with it, but on diy things Because i am tired of fear Comment deleted
Oh noo, they'll know if I sleep or not because my smart bulb is sending data somewhere😱😱😱😱 Btw, it's not Comment deleted