The SMART Home is a DUMB idea, and a privacy and security NIGHTMARE
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#smarthome #privacy
00:00 Intro
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01:46 The Smart Home: comfort, at which price?
03:29 Security problems
06:29 Privacy is non existent
09:16 The Cloudless Smart Home
12:14 Convenience or privacy: you decide!
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13:48 Support the channel
"Privacy is Dead" Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdbIk__Yafs
The more obvious threat is to your home security, and to who inhabits that home. Most devices use a cloud service to store data. But while YOU can't access this data, hackers definitely can, and have in the past.
Look at EUFY, the smart camera system that proclaimed everything was local and not in the cloud.
https://www.lifewire.com/why-ankers-eufy-cameras-upload-scandal-shows-the-dangers-of-home-automation-6836174
In March 2021, hackers breached a server for security cameras, gaining access to live feeds for hospitals, women's health clinics, prisons, police departments, and even schools.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hackers-breach-thousands-security-cameras-213219424.html
Alexa speakers were also hacked, with malicious actors getting access to banking details, voice search history, and even access to the various skills and commands you could ask Alexa.
https://www.avira.com/en/blog/these-are-the-two-most-hacked-devices-in-smart-homes
Or, still on Amazon, their Ring range of devices was also easily hacked.
https://nordvpn.com/blog/ring-doorbell-hack/
With access to your smart home devices, hackers could remotely disable the alarm, disable the cameras, and just wait until you leave to go and grab everything they want. They could even have a full map of your house thanks to your robot vacuum which diligently created that map for them.
Same applies for privacy, but the main people who benefit from that are the companies that sell you the products.
Most companies that make smart home appliances don't care about the smart home, they care about the data these appliances can give them, and how they can sell access to that data to advertisers.
And again, why would that matter? We're already giving away most of our data to Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and a lot of others.
But it's not just data about YOU, is it? It's data bout your home, and everyone who lives in it. Your significant other, your kids, your visiting friends, family. As long as they stay in your house, their data is also going to the company who made your appliances.
But why you probably SHOULD care is because that data isn't going away. And it's available to any government that has laws that gives it access to.
Basically, here again, if your data is going to a server that's not yours, then the company that hosts it probably uses that data for profiling, and various governments around the world probably have access to it as well.
Now, of course, you CAN set up a smart home without using cloud based products. There's a very cool thing called home assistant. It's open source, it can run on something as small as a raspberry pi, so you can self host it, and all the data stays on your local network, where it's not 100% safe, but it's still way safer than being on the open internet.
Home Assistant integrates with tons and tons of services, like homekit, alexa, google assistant, zigbee, philips hue, samsung smarthings, google cast, Z Wave, and more.
BUT home assistant isn't perfect. First, out of the box, it's local only, so no controlling your stuff when you're not on your wifi network. You can solve that using Home Assistant Cloud. But guess what: you're still using other cloud services like a voice assistant for example to communicate with Home Assistant.