Of course the "internet of things" is kind of a joke right now. What with the lack of any sort of standardization it is unlikely that the owner will be able to

Of course the "internet of things" is kind of a joke right now. What with the lack of any sort of standardization it is unlikely that the owner will be able to usefully control things much less some remote attacker. Unless the attacker doesn't want to use the IoT device for its usual purpose, but instead as, say, a vehicle for a DoS attack, or an attack path into other devices connected to the same home network.