One of the dangers of the "internet of stings" is that if you lose your internet service you also lose control of your house and appliances.

It is a shame that the article refers to people accused of forbidden sharing as "pirates", as if sharing copies were somehow wrong.

It is well known that designing an appliance so that the owner needs to connect to it through the internet, rather than locally and directly, makes it insecure in many ways. To that list we must add the danger of being disconnected from it.

Those insecurities are in addition to the malicious things that the appliance could be built to do you.

For your safety, don't use any appliance with a connected to the real internet.