My daughter and son-in-law are cyber security experts and white hat hackers, and they have no “smart” appliances in their home.
“’My daughter and son-in-law are cyber security experts and white hat hackers, and they have no “smart” appliances in their home.”
No cellphone? Smart TV? WiFi?
Every time I hear of the term “smart”...I think “stupid”.
One of my neighbors has a DIL who is in CyberSecurity and she doesn’t have anything ‘smart’ in her home. This lady’s daughter’s office is like a real tight drum, security-wise.
We’re going to be hold-outs on any ‘smart’ TV or appliance.
I freaked out one day because we were discussing something and my damn IPad repeated something I had just said. I was 4 feet away from it and had not pressed the sound tab, or anything like it. My husband and I *both* damn near had strokes. It hasn’t done it since then.... so we have no clear idea what happened... it had never done anything like that in the years I have had the IPad... only that one time....
...still, it spooked us enough! We’d already made the decision never to have a ‘smart’ TV; this just reinforced that decision.
What I don’t understand is why people were shocked when their ‘smart’ homes locked them out. There have been movies made about bad guys doing that to homes and businesses!!!
Give me a key and lock any day of the week.
And a strong, reinforced door, as well! :)
I’m with them. However, every phone or home computer or router can probably be hacked by those who know how. Paper and pen in my line of work is all I trust to keep things private.