The (Connected) House Of Horrors

In September 2016, I was delighted to deliver this talk to ThingMonk 2016.

This is the 20 minute distilation of my adventures Singing to my lightbulbs, hacking my vacuum cleaner, finding my car's source code, hacking my electric car, getting hacked by my light switches, securing my security cameras, and a whole host of other IoT nonsense.

Huge thanks to Bennycrime for filming, and the whole ThingMonk team.

If you'd like me to speak at your conference, please get in touch.

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A selection of comments about the talk as I gave it.

Fable C. Tales

@fables_tales

Replying to @edent@edent is *slaying* at @thingmonk right now.

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thingmonk

@thingmonk

audience warming up is now warming up @edent. we have FEEDBACK LOOPS happening #thingmonk

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Nicholas Humfrey

@njh

"I am driving round in an un-patched Linux box" - @edent in his BWM i3 #thingmonk

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Aisha / @newnomad.bsky.social

@new_nomad

"Why does my light switch want to call premium rate numbers?" Connected house of horrors by @edent #thingmonk pic.x.com/ie9ngghknc

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Alasdair Allan

@aallan

"My smart light switch makes me want to cry," says @edent. #iot #thingmonk pic.x.com/kkbkhxxici

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Stacey Higginbotham

@gigastacey

Listening to @edent describe my life in his Connected House of Horrors at #thingmonk

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Dr. Boris Adryan

@BorisAdryan

Beardy, long haired 'cool guy' @edent hates his life. Because his connected life serves as bad example for everyone else. :-) #thingmonk

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Rainey

@RaineyDav

.@edent I googled Wi-FI light switch to buy one and you came out as the first organic search result! #thingmonk #IoT pic.x.com/aycyxnylur

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Mark Charmer

@charmermark

That was such a great talk by @edent here at @thingmonk, about the horrors of poor software design for the connected home (and car).

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Charlie Isaacs

@charlieisaacs

#thingmonk @edent "Nest sent me an email when I inserted the wrong brand batteries" "thanks for the therapy session" #hilarious

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Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪📨🇮🇱🇺🇦

@clemensv

130km. @edent has a busy vacuum robot. #thingmonk pic.x.com/xwxtmtgdyp

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Melanie W

@melanieweir

"Twitter is better than any other IOT platform on the planet." @edent @thingmonk "You can store loads of data on twitter without paying."

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