Your living room’s smart bulbs aren’t just illuminating your space—they’re potentially recording your every move, conversation, and daily routine through hidden surveillance mechanisms that most homeowners never discover. Recent cybersecurity research reveals that 78% of smart bulb users unknowingly expose themselves to covert monitoring through devices they assumed were simply energy-efficient lighting solutions.

This isn’t science fiction paranoia. It’s the reality of modern IoT devices that embed sophisticated surveillance capabilities while masquerading as innocent household items.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Wouldn’t someone have noticed all the traffic on the network? And if the conversations were processed locally, wouldn’t someone notice the energy and cooling needs of the processor in the bulb, not to mention the presence of a load of memory? This seems very implausible.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    OP, the site you’re linking to is LLM slop. Like seriously just look at this site for a second. There’s zero consistent theme. The images are generated. They’re all “BY JOHN” (no pfp, no last name, no bio). It only ever hyperlinks to itself – i.e. the sources may as well be “I made it the fuck up”. The way the articles are structured are LLM slop to a tee – randomly bolding words, meandering prose, overuse of bullet points, jarring logical flow, etc.

    Can’t you please link to an actual source to make this claim?

  • Overspark@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    What kind of AI written nonsense is this. No sources to back up their claims. Made up percentages that seem way too specific. Obviously bad IoT devices can do bad things but claims like these require something to back them up.

    • ch00f@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Also from this fine media establishment:

      • Warning: 73% of garden soil contains hidden drain chemicals affecting families for 18 months
      • I tried this 2-ingredient summer mask at 53 and my dark spots faded 70% in 3 weeks (dermatologists explain why)
      • Cold plunge warning: this 15-second exposure raises senior blood pressure by 40 mmHg

      Also, for a writer named “John,” he seems to really like wearing women’s clothing

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Use low power radio like ZigBee or Z-Wave, exclusively, unless you have a good reason to trust the device.

    • erytau@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      That’s cool, that’s cool. I bet with some kind of neural link we’ll be able to bump that up to 200%