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There was a huge backlash to this. There was the potential for thieves to find out the layout of someone’s home and when it was unoccupied. Add cameras to that

There was a huge backlash to this. There was the potential for thieves to find out the layout of someone’s home and when it was unoccupied. Add cameras to that and you have a disaster waiting to happen.

gruez 4y ago
>There was the potential for thieves to find out the layout of someone’s home and when it was unoccupied. Add cameras to that and you have a disaster waiting to happen. This feels like pearl clutching for no reason. It's not hard to find out the layout of a house. In a given neighborhood there are probably dozens of houses for sale, which would have their floor plans publicly available as part of their listing. At the same time, there is a high chance that multiple homes in a given neighborhood share a floor plan. Therefore the layout of any given house isn't exactly some sort of a secret. As for figuring out whether a house is occupied, there are far easier ways. Any internet connected laptop/phone has built-in cameras and microphones, which also allow you do determine occupancy. Of course, none of this matters. The typical robber isn't going to do some ocean's 11 heist shit where they're scoping out your house's layout in advance and hacking into megacorp's servers so they can learn your daily routine. They're far more likely to make an educated guess based on whether your car is parked and whether the lights are on. If they're really prepared they'll maybe drive through your neighborhood several times a day to get a better sense of occupancy.
- hobbitstan 4y ago
  Given the long history of IoT devices becoming compromised, it’s common sense to be cautious.
astura 4y ago
Oh please - If someone wants to know the layout of my house they could just look at public property records which are published online.
- autoexec 4y ago
  Can anyone also look online to see what types of furniture you have, how often you replace it, how you have it arranged, if you have children in the house, how clean/cluttered your home is kept, how often/quickly you put things away, whether or not you are a hoarder, if you have pets, etc. Continuously updated maps of your home and its contents over time is a lot more revealing than just a basic floorplan.
npteljes 4y ago
Like how Google Streetview became a disaster? I dislike mapping like this as the next privacy conscious guy, but the world hasn't really changed since then. But it was anticipated to.
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gruez 4y ago

>There was the potential for thieves to find out the layout of someone’s home and when it was unoccupied. Add cameras to that and you have a disaster waiting to happen. This feels like pearl clutching for no reason. It's not hard to find out the layout of a house. In a given neighborhood there are probably dozens of houses for sale, which would have their floor plans publicly available as part of their listing. At the same time, there is a high chance that multiple homes in a given neighborhood share a floor plan. Therefore the layout of any given house isn't exactly some sort of a secret. As for figuring out whether a house is occupied, there are far easier ways. Any internet connected laptop/phone has built-in cameras and microphones, which also allow you do determine occupancy. Of course, none of this matters. The typical robber isn't going to do some ocean's 11 heist shit where they're scoping out your house's layout in advance and hacking into megacorp's servers so they can learn your daily routine. They're far more likely to make an educated guess based on whether your car is parked and whether the lights are on. If they're really prepared they'll maybe drive through your neighborhood several times a day to get a better sense of occupancy.

hobbitstan 4y ago
Given the long history of IoT devices becoming compromised, it’s common sense to be cautious.

astura 4y ago

Oh please - If someone wants to know the layout of my house they could just look at public property records which are published online.

autoexec 4y ago
Can anyone also look online to see what types of furniture you have, how often you replace it, how you have it arranged, if you have children in the house, how clean/cluttered your home is kept, how often/quickly you put things away, whether or not you are a hoarder, if you have pets, etc. Continuously updated maps of your home and its contents over time is a lot more revealing than just a basic floorplan.

npteljes 4y ago

Like how Google Streetview became a disaster? I dislike mapping like this as the next privacy conscious guy, but the world hasn't really changed since then. But it was anticipated to.

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