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Security of the wifi device and it's connection to the internet.. not enough people are talking about this.

So many "internet enabled" devices out there are poor on security. I would love to hear from the people behind Nest on how they plan to take on internet attacks.

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Some of Google's security team has helped to stiffen the safeguards[1]

[1] http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/nest-smoke-detector/al...

the fact that's even possible worries me.

1 billion transistors and 40 million lines of code in my smoke detector.

hurrah, the smoke detector crashed again!

Thanks for that link. I suppose it's good that some effort from experienced people has been made, but this really concerns me that the security stiffening was a "side project" of some Google folks.

"Board member and investor Bill Maris of Google Ventures says that some of Google’s security team helped stiffen Nest’s safeguards as a side project."

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