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Ok so let's pretend I have a 10 led smartbulbs in my house ( future state, most people have less than 10 ). Let's say their mean time to failure is a six months
by sleepybrett 8y ago
Ok so let's pretend I have a 10 led smartbulbs in my house ( future state, most people have less than 10 ). Let's say their mean time to failure is a six months ( I think this is significantly lowballed ). That means there will be 1 lightbulb in the trash on average every two to three weeks. This number is highly unrealistic but whatever.
So you are going to have to dig through my trash (assuming curbside (it isn't) two to three times to find a blub.
My door lock is easier to compromise. Just walk in and walk out with my server.
Fact of the matter is, if you are the target of someone, there are better ways... and if this is just an opportunistic guy that got some lightbulbs off the back of an e-cycler truck and one of them happens to be mine. He can have whatever he can find on my network.
TL;DR: The lock on your front door is easier to exploit, and the lock on your back door is probably even worse.
- mirkules 8y agoI can actually see this as a useful attack vector on criminal organizations, since LEOs can legally search through trash without a warrant [0] They could collect the trash every week, obtain wifi passwords, and obtain a warrant to perform eavesdropping on the network. [0]https://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/criminal-law/arrests_and_searches/cops_search_garbage.htm https://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/criminal-law/arrests_and...
- microtherion 8y agoThe Hollywood exploit would be to take out the light bulb with a BB gun through an open window, and then go through the trash THAT night.
- vxNsr 8y agoor cause a power surge blowing the bulb out.