A Japanese version of this is on Zenn . My desk has a MacBook and, permanently parked next to it, a ThinkPad running Arch Linux that I use for build chores. I was setting up a smart plug I'd just bought when it occurred to me: this random lump of firmware is on the same network as my Mac. So I decided to simulate "one cheap IoT device got popped" and see how far I could get attacking the Mac from the ThinkPad. My Mac also runs a defense app I built myself — RoamSwitch — so this doubl...