Next they’ll demand users respect Claude’s right to a break, and then that they pay him a salary.

The monster’s name? El Psy Congroo.

I may know some answers, but I don’t have a full picture, and I wish to complete my understanding by learning others’ perspectives and what they find most important about this choice of protocols. Thank you for sharing yours.

Right, thanks. But this can be easily resolved by:

• Removing devices’ access to WAN, which also vastly reduces the external actor’s ability to compromise them in the first place.
• Isolating devices from each other with internal firewall rules, allowing them to only interact with the hub host. Is this correct, or am I missing something?

What kind of disaster specifically? I hear everyone discouraging from using WiFi for home devices, but never understood what the actual risks are.

There used to be an online competition years ago, I think it was called “TheMostSpam.com” or something like that, where you would get a temporary email address and it would track a leaderboard of whose address received the most messages in 24h, a month, and lifetime. Modern email tech rendered it pointless, but back in the days of the simpler internet, it was a fun concept.