‘Mr. Robot’ Premiere: What’s a Smart Home and How Can You Get One?

You, too, can fill your home with light bulbs that connect to the Internet, but it’ll cost you

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(Some minor spoilers for the Season 2 premiere of “Mr. Robot” are below.)

Mr. Robot” is notorious for being dour, but the Season 2 premiere gave us a pretty fun scene, in which fsociety hacks the home of Evil Corp lawyer Susan Jacobs (Sandrine Holt).

Yes, that’s right — they actually hacked a house. They turned lights on an off, made the projector screen turn on and show a political pundit giving a rousing screed, turned the thermostat way down and even turned up the heat of the shower while Jacobs was in it. All classic haunted house stuff, but grounded in reality.

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