Ryan Montgomery

So let's say a Chinese...

company goes rogue which i don't think is too crazy to think about modern day and um sends out custom firmware for these bulbs that does something malicious on your home network you know what if it gains access to your computer or to your amazon alexa or whatever it may be and now they're listening to you in your house or they're they're you know just trying to steal your passwords you're doing whatever they're doing they're collecting data or intel um which there's so many examples of that here's another one uh

So, same guy, just buying smart, you know, they're called Internet of Things or smart home devices straight off the internet.

This is just a smart plug that looks, I mean, you can look at it.

There's nothing special.

What makes it smart?

It connects to Alexa and Wi-Fi so you can turn something on or off.

Just a simple gadget that you can buy on Amazon.

Okay.

Yeah, you tell Alexa, you say, hey, turn the lamp on, and she turns the lamp on.

That is essentially the same as the light bulb.

So that will monitor the network and still work just as it does out of the factory.

Yeah, I understand that.

So my personal reason is I can see the traffic going in and out of my house.

I know that the microphone has to be listening at all times to listen for the word Alexa.

I'm aware of that, but I know that my conversations, unless I say the word Alexa, are not being sent to Amazon servers.

So I'm personally not scared of it, but I do know that if somebody really wanted to, they could use those devices to listen or see inside my house.

That is a fact.

Of course.

Yeah.