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.

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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.