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When all is said and done, buy a broom or control your bot

Buy the cheap Roomba. It can’t connect to Wi-Fi. It just, you know — vacuums your floor.

Buy the fancy Roomba and disable the cloud sharing function in the iRoom Home app.

Set up MAC address filtering on your router. This is a bit tech-intensive, but it boils down to this: every device you connect to the net has a unique Media Access Control (MAC) address   You can give your router a list of MAC addresses, and tell it not to let anyone in unless they’re on the list. This works to stop any Wi-Fi-capable appliance in your household from connecting to the net. Check your router instructions; it’s worth looking into.

And one we should all be doing to stop hackers- change default passwords on all devices that have not been changed from the original or for a fairly long time. Have you heard or read about the powerful botnet dubbed Mirai?

It sounds dramatic, but regular people’s internet-enabled devices – routers, webcams, printers, roomba vacuums, and so on – were used in a massive online attack that shut down a huge part of the internet for hours one Friday morning last October.

Does your Internet security provide you with access to scan for vulnerabilities in your home networks?

Until you do a scan, the question remains, how smart are you about your smart home?

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