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Just one suggestion, can you offer information on device security also? A collection of devices may work well together, but if I was buying a smart home device I'd want to be informed of any security issues as they're discovered. The escalations in DDoS size that we saw in 2016 were supposedly driven by a high number of insecure smart home/IoT devices, I'd like to do what I can to stop this becoming a trend.

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>The escalations in DDoS size that we saw in 2016 were supposedly driven by a high number of insecure smart home/IoT devices, I'd like to do what I can to stop this becoming a trend.

Primarily driven by home routers, not IoT devices.

>"Primarily driven by home routers, not IoT devices."

It's IoT devices too. Here's an example of an IoT device with subpar security discovered in the past couple of days:

http://hackaday.com/2017/01/02/owl-insecure-internet-of-ener...

That's a great idea.

Do you have any devices in your house, yet?

Thank you. Any IoT devices? Not yet.

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