“I wouldn’t want anybody else controlling my things for me,” English said. He said he unenrolled the home's thermostat as soon as he found out. “If somebody else can manipulate this, I’m not for it,” he said.
So... I assume by "unenrolling" he meant "I took my shotgun and blasted the damn thing"? Because otherwise, you're not unenrolled, you're just lower on their list. Asking one singular party nicely to not mess with something designed to be accessed by remote points by any number of parties... isn't unenrolling from it.
Any old hacker can change it, if the functionality exists for the government to change it. If when you build a house, you make a back door because your neighborhood HOA demanded it, asking your neighbors to not use your back door without permission doesn't stop burglars from using it freely. You would think this is obvious, but IQ is averaged on 100.
So... I assume by "unenrolling" he meant "I took my shotgun and blasted the damn thing"? Because otherwise, you're not unenrolled, you're just lower on their list. Asking one singular party nicely to not mess with something designed to be accessed by remote points by any number of parties... isn't unenrolling from it.
Any old hacker can change it, if the functionality exists for the government to change it. If when you build a house, you make a back door because your neighborhood HOA demanded it, asking your neighbors to not use your back door without permission doesn't stop burglars from using it freely. You would think this is obvious, but IQ is averaged on 100.