using lasers to trigger smart home devices

[Jim]

It looks like a laser amplitude modulated with the desired command will 
work. This video reminds me of something I heard about in high school in 
1983.  Everyone in town who had cable tv, had the same model cable box.  
Each one came with an infrared remote.  I heard about someone walking 
down the street at night, aiming their remote into other peoples' 
windows and changing channels on their cable box or turning it off.

On 12/31/19 12:20 PM, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> For Smarter Every Day Dustin covered a project that's using lasers to
> silently trigger 'smart home' devices.
>
> Not quite an electronic lock pick set, but still a demonstration that IoT
> comes with a lot of privacy and security issues.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozIKwGt38LQ
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans