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I finally audited my smart home after 3 years and found 4 security problems hiding in plain sight

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I finally audited my smart home after 3 years and found 4 security problems hiding in plain sight
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With a smart home, it's easy over the years to add one bulb here, one camera there, and just slowly grow from there. Your home app looks beautiful, but your network traffic is a chaotic mess as a result. The discovery I found was during a routine weekend audit. I realized my offline smart switch has been pinging a server in a different country every 30 seconds for a thousand days.

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