[editor-surveyor]

>> “Unless it knows my wifi router password, it’s not communicating anything back to the home office.” <<

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Sorry, but that depends on how old your router is. If you bought it within the last seven years, it has federally mandated “back doors.”

[Marcella]

My router is older than that and I don’t have any smart appliances. If one of them dies and I have to get a new one of something, it could communicate but I don’t have a smart meter, either, so maybe no info. can be communicated from my house yet.

If you have a smart meter, the power company can cut it off or let it run for certain hours and cut it off - do anything they want with your power and control any smart appliance plugged into that power source.

WE ARE LIVING IN THE BOOK/FILM 1984.

[steve86]

Sorry, but that depends on how old your router is. If you bought it within the last seven years, it has federally mandated “back doors.”

I believe you're talking about backdoor access from the WAN side; not the WIFI side.