A couple of weeks ago, I was sat on the sofa when the ceiling lights came on. I don't use these lights very often. Having come on, they then cycled through all the colours. This is alarming. The lights are IKEA Tradfri bulbs, and I have a Tradfri gateway so I can control the lights via the app. My immediate concern was maybe someone had compromised my network and was experimenting with the API the gateway exposes. I started to do some debugging and network analysis.
Today I discovered...
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Quixoticgeek
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