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Juhis Aug 11, 2024

When the company calls their home appliances "smart", what I hear is:

- they spent money on features I don't care about
- those features will be worse than standalone devices but will drive them out of market (looking at you TVs)
- the appliance is more likely to break
- my data is likely being sold to advertisers
- when the company loses interest in it and cut support, I will need to buy a new device

So no, I don't want "smart" home appliances.

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Leo Bistmans

@hamatti https://blog.f-secure.com/hypponens-law-smart-vulnerable/

Hypponen's Law: If it’s smart, it’s vulnerable - F-Secure Blog

2022 UPDATE: “If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable” is now available as a new book. Visit https://www.ifitssmartitsvulnerable.com/ to learn more. “Everything is becoming a computer,” Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer, said in his October 2018 keynote address at the Les Assises security conference. And this matters because “If it’s smart, it’s vulnerable”—this is Hypponen’s Law. […]

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