Unfairly lumping smart and centralized together. Of course that's how the common consumer understands these things, so I get it -- if this were coming from the

Unfairly lumping smart and centralized together. Of course that's how the common consumer understands these things, so I get it -- if this were coming from the WSJ or other normie news. But this is The Register and they are smart about these things. eg, they specifically mention HIK, but fail to mention that unifi cameras operate strictly locally (or can operate that way), and you can even setup unifi VPN so you can see the feed from anywhere. I can use my lutron smart devices without giving up any privacy whatsoever. With Home Assistant I can do even better. They could have done so much more with this article.