… WiFi credentials [31], turn smart thermostats into spy gadgets [32], ransom them [33], run
arbitrary commands on smart TVs [34], and control home assist devices covertly [35]. Costin et al…

… The Nest thermostat is an IoT-based thermostat that provides user-customized … their home
temperature in their first week. Based on data collected in the first week, the Nest thermostat …

… Instead, home IoT is better characterized by smart TVs, … that have been connected to our
home networks for more than a … —our home networks are only as secure as their weakest link. …

… within their home that uses smart devices. Complementary to smart devices used in the home…
controls or applications located within the home and on the home network. Jackson (2018) …

… no one is home and access an empty house, spy on the children … to time their cycles based
on data from the Nest thermostat … grids running our home energy and utility consumption, and …

… , using a simple signal light prompted people to reduce energy use by 15.7%, by indicating
for people to open their windows instead of using the air conditioning to cool their home. …

… The group was presenting, "Smart Nest Thermostat: A Smart Spy in Your Home" (pdf). …
After a detailed analysis of the hardware infrastructure of the Nest Thermostat, we identified a …

… To demonstrate this approach, we instrumented a smart home environment consisting of 57
IoT devices … Our results indicate that vendor APIs, trigger-action frameworks, and companion …

… who currently employ smart home devices in their household. … helping reduce existing
risks in smart devices in their home. … was exposed in Google's Nest thermostat when security …

… To better understand the operations of smart home devices, we manually went through (1)
the meta-data of the collected products, (2) their online documentations and websites, and (3) …