A general question: a Very Senior Person at work has a fully automated networked home. Skylights, lighting, aircon, heating.
I asked about the heating, as there's an emerging pattern of drive-bys where script kiddies turn on the hot tub and put the heating on max, in August, while the owners are away.
I've advised this enthusiastic participant in the Internet-of-Things-with-password-Admin to get a security audit...
...But there's nobody I can recommend.
If they take it seriously - and they read your post about lightbulbs - they are senior enough that the corporate security unit might do it as a favour.
Or not; and nobody I would trust to look at a garage-door opener is advertising such a service to homeowners.
I worry that the heating boiler has a Connected maintenance interface for the combustion system, as well as the harmless-but-expensively prankable thermostat.
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Date: 2016-03-13 03:07 pm (UTC)A general question: a Very Senior Person at work has a fully automated networked home. Skylights, lighting, aircon, heating.
I asked about the heating, as there's an emerging pattern of drive-bys where script kiddies turn on the hot tub and put the heating on max, in August, while the owners are away.
I've advised this enthusiastic participant in the Internet-of-Things-with-password-Admin to get a security audit...
...But there's nobody I can recommend.
If they take it seriously - and they read your post about lightbulbs - they are senior enough that the corporate security unit might do it as a favour.
Or not; and nobody I would trust to look at a garage-door opener is advertising such a service to homeowners.
I worry that the heating boiler has a Connected maintenance interface for the combustion system, as well as the harmless-but-expensively prankable thermostat.