ive used smart light bulbs in a botnet before

Yeah that’s why I never mentioned WiFi ones. Which can still be secured by not letting them access the rest of the network or the internet. That’s what we do in industrial automation, security standards for PLC software tend to suck, but that’s irrelevant if it can’t be reached.

and if you do a teardown on one of those locks you can probably get the firmware and uart to get the unlock function which you could use theoretically to unlock every single one

I don’t see how that’s relevant for a lock that’s inside an armoured door, it’s only accessible by disassembling the door, at which point unlocking it is moot.

No, not just the US

You don’t know what you’re missing out on!

Yeah but it’s refundable if you buy something

Again, my door is armored and I live in an apartment high up enough that climbing, while possible, is challenging.
Together with non-flashy vehicles and the complete absence of anything valuable (besides RAM!), we’re not an interesting target. Even if someone broke in they’d have to be an electronics enthusiast to find anything worth stealing.

Yeah but, at least in my country, cars can’t be on the road (which would be the internet in this case), without passing the periodic inspection.

ZigBee, Z-wave and Thread have virtually 0 attack surface from an IoT perspective, and even then what are they gonna do, do radio hacking to turn off and on my lights? It’s not like they can be used in a botnet.
Locks is a bit more risky as an endeavor, but again, it’s probably easier to pick the lock than hack it… Actually with the quality of many smart locks, smashing them is easier still.

Smart TVs are way more problematic devices for example, as soon as they stop receiving updates, you have a bunch of high-speed internet connected devices with unresolved exploits just sitting there waiting for the right chance.

I was considering a smart lock for my (armored) front door, but just because there are some locks manufactured here in Italy that can be set to be controlled by external contacts.
Which means I could use and ESP or similar with esphome, now they also support wired, ethernet ones.
That’s way more secure than the shitty lock I have now, I’ve seen videos of people picking that with a decoder device in 30 seconds.

Grade refers to the minimum specifications tho, they don’t even describe the whole product

Lack of empathy. As society we could do so much if we started caring for each other, working to lift everyone to the same level.

Just some raiders having fun with corpses

Zombie Jamie Lee Curtis

Funny since Italy has actually been mostly a vassal to the US since WWII

Tensions between the two countries had risen after the Italian government accused Israeli forces of firing warning shots at a convoy of Italian UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, damaging at least one vehicle.

I’m not a soldier, but I think warning shots aren’t supposed to hit

we don’t unzip, we tar

Two of the best games I’ve ever played, I got for free on Epic: Titanfall 2 and Control

Facial recognition software. Whether it’s AI or not is debatable.