OK, so there’s progress… hackers (of the ethical kind …! …?) actually improving security, as per your Nest thermostat.
Contrary, of course, to the hacking of your home security system as spelled out here and already ‘predicted’ by means of requiring solutions, quite some time earlier here…
For their, and your, viewing pleasure:
[The ‘old’ shouldn’t be underrated by not being rated well enough…]