> (BTW, manufacturers, if you want to use touch sensors and you don’t want to lose the massive midwit market, make things that automatically turn on when first connected to power, without waiting for a touch.)
...and if you ever lose power to the house, suddenly all devices turn on.
It reminds me of the glass vs plastic phone backside arguments. Glass is more fragile than plastic and will not absorb shocks. It is also heavier and harder to replace (most plastic backsides can be removed with a guitar pick).
Piggybacking on to this... I've currently split my home network into multiple VLAN, so that the IOT stuff can't access the "trusted" devices (or internet, depending on device).
However I realized it would be interesting to MITM the traffic and emulate the services these devices try to connect to, to see what data they are leaking. Does anyone know if there are any readymade software packages, or even tutorials, for this?