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AN ACTUAL HONEST-TO-GOODNESS letter (well, an email) from a reader arrived in the busy Maximum PC newsroom recently. Once we’d read it, we were even more shocked to discover it was filled with sensible questions and ideas, rather than the usual offer of manhood-enhancing medication. So thanks to Shawn, without whom we might have written about something completely different this month.

Shawn’s suggestion relates to Internet of things (IoT) devices, specifically smart lightbulbs, which he wants to connect to a segmented guest network to deny them full access to the wider internet while keeping their useful functionality. He found he could do this

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