A Castle of Glass: Leaky IoT Appliances in Modern Smart Homes
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The ubiquity of 802.11 WiFi and the miniaturization as a result of Moore's law has recently enabled the success of IoT. From smart lightbulbs to smart toasters, many home appliances are now becoming both Internet-enabled and interconnected through WiFi. Soon, these futuristic smart homes will be able to run themselves, allowing the human operators to be fully in control of their homes -- or will they? Despite the physical advancements made since the '90s, the same cannot be said of the vulnerabilities of these smart devices. We analyze a set of common smart home appliances -- a lightbulb, power switch, motion sensor, security camera, and home assistant -- putting their vulnerabilities to the test to see what a 21st century home intruder could discover.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it