Vulnerabilities in smart electric plugs give attackers a staging point for scanning and attacking your whole network

[doctorow]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/22/dumb-smart-plugs.html

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[FGD135]

[Papasan]

So that’s how they do it?

[pjz]

'swhy I try and keep my IoT gear open source. May I suggest espurna firmware (https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna) talking to home assistant (https://home-assistant.io)? At the very least, it’s upgradable and thus replaceable.

[Boundegar]

So what - isn’t everything going to be powered wirelessly?

[AnthonyI]

So I assume this includes the Wemos D1 and anything with an ESP8266 in it… sigh

oh wait, it’s a different chip…

[anon27554371]

Hey… yeah…

Wireless power transfer

Oh dear.