Forbes Writer Hacks into Smart Homes Haunting Strangers
Smart homes let you connect your home to devices in order to automatically turn on and off the lights, the TV, the air conditioning and so on through the power of a mobile app. While it’s pretty cool to be able to turn on the air conditioning to get the house cooled down as you head home from work, these networks are not without their weaknesses.
Forbes writer Kashmir Hill found that a now discontinued product from Insteon, which didn’t require users to create user names and passwords, allowed him to gain access to the homes of strangers and control their appliances from afar. Here
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