Or they could just dime out the heat/AC and give you a huge energy bill. Or kill the furnace in the winter, while you’re on vacation, and let your pipes burst.
This is why I like boarderless security, and did even before all these smart devices came around. Every device should be responsible for its own security. It meant your laptop is still protected when you’re on some random wifi network. Networks shouldn’t be built like eggs; hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
It does take more technical skill to setup, though.
Realistically speaking who targets an individual house in the hopes of accessing something important and usable when companies lose millions of customer financial and personal information basically every month?
The issue is that the thermostat can be used as a jump box into your network.
That’s when/where all the nefarious things happen.
Or they could just dime out the heat/AC and give you a huge energy bill. Or kill the furnace in the winter, while you’re on vacation, and let your pipes burst.
This is why I like boarderless security, and did even before all these smart devices came around. Every device should be responsible for its own security. It meant your laptop is still protected when you’re on some random wifi network. Networks shouldn’t be built like eggs; hard on the outside, soft on the inside.
It does take more technical skill to setup, though.
Realistically speaking who targets an individual house in the hopes of accessing something important and usable when companies lose millions of customer financial and personal information basically every month?