[ben174]

Do you have any fear that the connection of all these iot devices could be used in the facilitation of a widespread attack?

Also, all the devices in our homes running code which we have no way of scrutinizing. I'm a bit alarmed about that.

And the uprise in unchecked images people are flashing onto raspi's which could potentially be owned by a bad actor.

I could be paranoid, but these are things that have been on my mind.

[balloob]

There are enough products and projects available to build a smart home based on just open source code: Home Assistant, ESPHome and WLED for example. And soon you can add Matter to that mix. Product manufacturers could publish their source if they wanted to.

For the Raspi images: the build pipelines are often hosted on GitHub and all the build logs and source is available. If anything, open source projects that are big enough to offer their own OS often receive more scrutiny than most closed source products do.