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.

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

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

— Fable C. Tales (@fables_tales) September 13, 2016

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

— thingmonk (@thingmonk) September 13, 2016

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

— Nicholas Humfrey (@njh) September 13, 2016

"Why does my light switch want to call premium rate numbers?" Connected house of horrors by @edent #thingmonk pic.twitter.com/ie9nGgHKnc

— Aisha / @newnomad.bsky.social (@new_nomad) September 13, 2016

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

— Alasdair Allan (@aallan) September 13, 2016

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

— Stacey Higginbotham (@gigastacey) September 13, 2016

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

— Dr. Boris Adryan (@BorisAdryan) September 13, 2016

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

— Rainey (@RaineyDav) September 18, 2016

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

— Mark Charmer (@charmermark) September 13, 2016

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

— Charlie Isaacs (@charlieisaacs) September 13, 2016

https://twitter.com/Afrohacker/status/775660331716739072
https://twitter.com/martinjgale/status/775660238745796609

130km. @edent has a busy vacuum robot. #thingmonk pic.twitter.com/XWxtMtGdyP

— Clemens Vasters 🇪🇺🇩🇪📨🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@clemensv) September 13, 2016

https://twitter.com/melanieweir/status/775658468497907712