You tend to forget that each of these lightbulbs actually have a SoC, system on a chip, like raspberry pi in there to make things work. Changing a bunch of leds colors is trivial, but it basically takes a tiny linux box with a web server, telnet server, to make it internet thingy. It actually doesn’t but SoCs are crazy easy to develop on and just put them out there instead of making specialized components.
So, someone couldn’t really hack your house, they just take over the little computers to use in their bot networks. This actually is kind of cool if used for good. Imagine all the lightbulbs in your house acting as a solid state raid drive, or as part of the house’s distributed processor. Since processing and memory get cheaper and cheaper, you would basically be upgrading your house computer every time you change a lightbulb.
Just be sure to change the default password.
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