What is the problem with smart homes?

Filling your house with smart appliances also fills it with various questions. Some have to do with basic privacy issues:  Is Alexa listening to me all the time?  Others are related to tracking the location and behaviors. Recently, Gizmodo published a fascinating story entitled “The House That Spied on me ": an article that everyone with a smart home should read. Perhaps you would be surprised to know how much information intelligent devices can reveal about you. For example, something as seemingly harmless as an intelligent thermostat harbors the secrets of your daily patterns: when you are at home and when you are not. This information is available to anyone who knows where to look.

Then there are more important privacy invasions. The same webcam you use to make sure no one is hanging around on the floor below can use it to spy on you when you're hanging around that floor. Are smart locks intelligent enough to block a stubborn hacker or can the main door be opened in a matter of seconds? And all those microphones? Is there someone listening to you and collecting personal information?

Given the popularity of the field of smart homes, many companies want to take advantage of the situation. Many of these devices connected to the Internet are manufactured by companies focused on products and services, not by experts in network security. Maybe security is not your main concern, but it does have to be for you. It is enough that only one of the devices is vulnerable to endanger your entire home.