@theunknowntech Thank you for the good run down, it's appreciated you took the time, and effort to respond in such a detailed way.
I feel my worries are still valid, just because someone hasn't breached the security now, or used the devices to their full surveillance capabilities, doesn't mean it won't happen in the future.
If I was a bad actor, and I knew that millions of houses had potential to be remotely monitored, surveilled and the potential capability to switch off energy to them, wouldn't I focus on trying to best that security? Like I said, it's not a matter of if, but when in the cyber security world. Mitigation of potential attack vectors is all we can do. Handing over this capability to faceless corporations, government intervention, and others, hoping it will go well doesn't seem like a great option to me.
The same could be said about the surveillance aspect, just because the functionality isn't used now, there is no guarantee bad actors won't decide to use these tools in the future. These devices are capable of a lot more than what appears to be on the surface. Who's to say the rules don't change? Who's to say we won't be monitored, in our households because of some arbitrary nonsense a government body cooks up? Anyone that doubts this could be a possibility in the future needs to take a look at what has happened over the last few years.
Just because everyone else is doing it, doesn't make it the thing we should all be doing.
I feel my worries are still valid, just because someone hasn't breached the security now, or used the devices to their full surveillance capabilities, doesn't mean it won't happen in the future.
If I was a bad actor, and I knew that millions of houses had potential to be remotely monitored, surveilled and the potential capability to switch off energy to them, wouldn't I focus on trying to best that security? Like I said, it's not a matter of if, but when in the cyber security world. Mitigation of potential attack vectors is all we can do. Handing over this capability to faceless corporations, government intervention, and others, hoping it will go well doesn't seem like a great option to me.
The same could be said about the surveillance aspect, just because the functionality isn't used now, there is no guarantee bad actors won't decide to use these tools in the future. These devices are capable of a lot more than what appears to be on the surface. Who's to say the rules don't change? Who's to say we won't be monitored, in our households because of some arbitrary nonsense a government body cooks up? Anyone that doubts this could be a possibility in the future needs to take a look at what has happened over the last few years.
Just because everyone else is doing it, doesn't make it the thing we should all be doing.
