Posted on 02/10/2019 6:38:37 PM PST by ameribbean expat
Your smart lightbulb is probably storing your wifi password in the clear, ready to be recovered by wily dumpster-divers; Limited Results discovered the security worst-practice during a teardown of a Lifx bulb; and that's just for starters: the bulbs also store their RSA private key and root passwords in the clear and have no security measures to prevent malicious reflashings of their ROMs with exploits, network probes and other nasties.
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No toxins in incandescent bulbs.
I’d have to get rid of some of my incandescent bulbs in order to have room to buy yours.
Once LEDs got reasonable I use them in the hard to reach locations, so I have *plenty* of 60w to last the rest of my life. LOL And I bought them dirt cheap as soon as I knew they were going to ban them. 4 for a dollar, ha ha
I especially like breaking the 4 and 8 foot ones.
Brutally simple and clean.
The EnviroTards couldn’t stand that and had to “fix” it.
We did the same thing - have two big plastic bins full of them :-)
(And you can still buy them, if you look around. I don’t know why, never understood exactly how the ‘ban’ works; but they’re out there...)
When the switch from incandescent to CFL was made, I hated CFLs. The made noise and gave off a really strange light.
Today LEDs are the way to go. Science had conquered the blue light problem. The LED light I have for may desk gives off a warm glow that is nearly identical to an incandescent lamp.
But smart light bulbs? Sorry, I’l pass that. Along with Echo, Alexa, etc. My refrigerator does not need access to the Internet.
My homes have been dumb for many years and have gotten along fine. Why should I change that?
Virtue signaling about light bulbs? Wow.
Don’t use em
Uh oh.
As I understand it, it was the manufacture of these bulbs that was banned after a certain date. There’s no ban on buying or selling them as long as there are any available.
Though I have no doubt that the liberals would have dearly loved to ban the use of the bulbs. I suspect they would have done what was done in Argentina if they could. That being sending the Army into people’s homes to take their incandescent bulbs away.
So, what kind of LED are you using that’s ‘nearly identical to an incandescent’? I haven’t found one; everything I’ve tried gives off cold, ugly light.
Well, there are still so many available, I’m wondering if people are buying them offshore, and selling them here (?)
“(I grew up having to actually get up off the couch to change the channel...)”
I remember having a remote control tv older than I was, a 1950’s model Philips or Zenith model I think. It worked by sound wave signals when you pushed a button.
On occasion some noise from the kitchen would match the frequency and turn the channel unexpectedly. LOL
A.K.A. not-so-smart bulbs.
Huh.
Your family must have been a lot more wealthy than mine was...
That would not surprise me at all. The quickest way to create a flourishing black market is to ban something people want.
But again, and this is only my memory, it was the 60 watt bulbs that got banned and the 75 and 100 watt bulbs either weren’t banned or the ban started much later.
My own theory is that a lot of people bought into the hype and jumped over to CFLs early on after the band was announced. Add to that that this helped cause a leap in the quality and lowering of cost of LEDs. So I think that demand just tanked and that’s why we have so many still around.
My daughter lives in Louisville and Louisville Gas and Electric gives her free CFLs. So she doesn’t have any motivation to buy bulbs. That right there is an artificial distortion of demand.
Look for the color temp on the packaging. 2800K to 3500K will give you a nice warm light. I’ve got ‘em throughout my house. Can’t tell the difference.
Fundamental problem with the “internet of things.” Sure, the idea is to make almost everything “smart” and connected. Catch-22 here. By definition they have to be connected to what you’re connected to. They also need to be secure, so they are “in” on the security of your network. The gotcha is, as this particular device illustrates, the security of your network is then reliant on all these devices to keep it secure. Your network is only as good as the weakest device on it. These are consumer goods manufacturers, appliance makers, etc. They are not (yet) cyber security experts. Someday someone will breach your network through your sprinkler control system and convince your refrigerator to order 47 cases of cheeze-whiz from the local grocer...
We bought a bunch of those spiral-y CFLs when we heard the ban was going to take place. But they didn’t last very long! and were much more expensive than old-fashioned bulbs; and we didn’t like the disposal issues.
That’s the reason we stocked-up on incandescents.
Thanks. I’ll try them.
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