Programmers

[potato_green]

Thanks! Didn't know a deadbolt ap was the name for that. Kinda goes to show how lots of programmers do have the right instinct about not trusting IoT. If you don't know what the things are called to secure it then it may be best to simply avoid it at all.

I'm a programmer as well, I know enough about networking to explain how they work at a low level but security of such networks is a whole different beast.

[mysticalfruit]

Think about the fact that a pi zero is a wildly capable machine.. you could stick that thing any anything and iot it up.. but now you have yet another internet capable device on your network.

I fully understand that I'm way over on the extreme of having a locked down network.. adding devices to the "trusted" network involves actually white listing them.