Imagine your washing machine won’t work again until you pay a ransom, while your toaster is currently being used for a cyberattack on the German Bundestag … and then there’s your TV that’s running hot because it’s part of an Asian cryptominer botnet … aaargh! Welcome to the smart home hell of tomorrow.It doesn’t have to get that far. But it will require all of us to rethink how we develop and use smart things: security by design across the lifecycle is a challenge that industry, consumers and policymakers need to address. This talk takes an entertaining look at the cybersecurity scares of smart products in our everyday lives and explains how much of the existing security problems in IoT can be solved.