One of the more possible (though still highly unlikely) situations is IOT switches that phone home. The US made some stink about the possibility of China being able to toggle them remotely to overload circuits and explode transformers with an oscillating load.
Which immediately tells me that the US made ones being sold to other countries are absolutely capable of doing that and I should probably stick with the Chinese ones.
I checked mine and didn't see anything phoning home, the Amazon and Google ones both phone home to a server somewhere. Ostensibly for reading your account linked calendar, but it means it's absolutely available for exploitation.
One of the more possible (though still highly unlikely) situations is IOT switches that phone home. The US made some stink about the possibility of China being able to toggle them remotely to overload circuits and explode transformers with an oscillating load.
Which immediately tells me that the US made ones being sold to other countries are absolutely capable of doing that and I should probably stick with the Chinese ones.
:xicko:
I checked mine and didn't see anything phoning home, the Amazon and Google ones both phone home to a server somewhere. Ostensibly for reading your account linked calendar, but it means it's absolutely available for exploitation.