Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Uncle Sam Has a Plan to Secure Your Smart Home. Here’s Why We’re Skeptical.

The smart home often gets a bad rap. People worry that their devices are snooping on them or sending personal data to nefarious companies. Or that their every move and purchase is being tracked. Or that some creepy rando can talk to their kids through their own security camera.

And sometimes they’re right. Although some eye-catching headlines that have induced bouts of mass technophobia, the number of incidents has been minuscule compared with the amount of devices that live in all our homes. Nonetheless the threat is real, and industry-wide standards for security measures don’t exist.

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from Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/new-government-plan-to-secure-your-smart-home/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS%20Feed

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