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The title seems like a bit of a misrepresentation of the content due to the particular definition they use in the report for a "smart home". The notion of smart
by close04 8y ago
The title seems like a bit of a misrepresentation of the content due to the particular definition they use in the report for a "smart home". The notion of smart home usually refers to home automation and recently to IoT [0]. But you will notice that the definition here is "having any kind of device that can be hacked, except computers and smartphones which won't be considered".
> The majority of connected devices users have at home are still computers and smartphones which connect via Wi-Fi through the home router. Excluding these three types of devices [...]
> Top ten smart home devices per country (excluding PCs, smartphones, and routers)
Having a router is enough to treat it as a "smart home" and it appears they are the most hacked device. IoT doesn't actually feature too prominently in the report, despite the title.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation