Just how much tech do you want?

[l921428x]

Arbitrary question but I would like to know. We are starting to see the internet of things.
Refrigerators that talk to phones, you can change the Tstat in the house with a phone,
you can lock doors and turn on/off lights with a phone, you can ask a cardboard roll a question or even
change things by talking to the tube, TV and cardboard. You can be track by your phone and some cars.

Do you embrace this and like it or does it really not matter to you or does it scare you and you
tend to stay away from such devices?

[LAGC]

As for me, no "smart" devices in my home at all. I don't even own a smartphone, just a dumbphone that can only do voice and text.

Anything that has an IP address can be hacked. Be it a "smart" lock, a "smart" theromostat, or a "smart" voice recognition system (that can be commandeered to eavesdrop on your private conversations), or a "smart" home surveillance system with video cam feeds that can be remotely captured, spying on you and your loved ones in your own home.

NO WAY, NO HOW.

It's not that hard to lift the remote to change the TV channel. Who needs voice-activated crap that can listen in on your private conversations? Google "WeepingAngel" -- that latest big leak of CIA documents showed they had tools to hack into smart TVs and use them to spy on people's private conversations in their own living rooms, even when the TV appeared to be turned off.

[sevlex]

I agree with LAGC, no IOT for my home.

Yeah, I have a smart phone and a htpc, plus the usual laptops, tablets etc. But no Amazon Echo or google spydevices. No connected lightbulbs, refrigerators, thermostats and such.

[l921428x]

I guess the responses answer the Q. Interesting.

[5.56NATO]

I agree with LAGC, no IOT for my home.

Yeah, I have a smart phone and a htpc, plus the usual laptops, tablets etc. But no Amazon Echo or google spydevices. No connected lightbulbs, refrigerators, thermostats and such.

The way the bastards will get around that is all new devices will be iot, so if your microwave or fridge goes tango uniform you'll have to buy used to replace them without iot involved.

[sevlex]

The way the bastards will get around that is all new devices will be iot, so if your microwave or fridge goes tango uniform you'll have to buy used to replace them without iot involved.

If that happens I'll go full Luddite.

[l921428x]

Well maybe they will leave us a small corner like Winston.

[LAGC]

Well maybe they will leave us a small corner like Winston.

That's what I don't get. All these people buying those "smart TVs" with built-in microphones AND webcams.

How eerily dystopian can you get here, people? Straight out of 1984... Big Brother is watching.

"Bend lower, Winston... touch your ankles! I can see that you aren't even trying!"

[JTHunter]

If that happens I'll go full Luddite.

Ditto !!