[TheRealDunkirk]

I don't care how "secure" one can make an internet-connected lamp. I don't want or need a lamp to connect to the internet to change its operating conditions. The problem is that we, as a society, are being so suckered by cheap consumer devices that it's becoming difficult to even FIND NON-connected devices in some categories. Like the lamp in the article, I'm willing to bet that he looked for something with purely physical controls, and couldn't find one in a comparable price point. I honestly don't get it. I can't fathom what some company could possibly be doing with my usage data from some internet-connected LAMP, or why they would go about designing all the infrastructure to make it work. It would be orders of magnitude more easy to just put some buttons on the side of the unit. At this point, I guess someone out there thinks, "Oh, neat!" but this sort of situation is paving the way for it to be impossible to buy ANY consumer electronic device that doesn't phone home in the very near future.