Hidden Radios in Home Devices (IOT)! The next Cyberthreat

Youtube Rob Braxman Tech channel ^ | 7-2-2021 | Rob Braxman

[DEPcom]

Did you know that your IOT devices are secretly communicating with each other? This includes IOT devices that are not in your home. Did you know that what your IOT devices do may be transmitted to third parties? Did you know that your TV may also have the capability and may currently be transmitting your activity far and wide?

[DEPcom]

Big government can spy on you using your smart TV, Amazon Echo and other internet devices.

[Larry Lucido]

IdiOT device? Something that makes YouTube selfies?

[Larry Lucido]

Indian Ocean Territory?

Illuminates of Thanateros?

Intensive Outpatient Treatment?

[Larry Lucido]

Investors of Tomorrow?

[Larry Lucido]

Immature Ovarian Teratoma?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All home routers are made in China.

You just know they have a back-door.

I run dd-wrt on mine, but they probably have a way around that.

[Menehune56]

“Internet Of Things”

[Wuli]

To all FYI:

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/iot-devices/

[V_TWIN]

Apologies for my ignorance but first of all what the heck is a IOT device?

[Cold Heart]

yes, the old dd-wrt trick to counter the IOT

[Disambiguator]

My tv is unplugged unless I’m using it, which is very seldom. Even then, it’s not attached to the web.

[Billthedrill]

“Internet Of Eveything” - smart devices.

[polymuser]

“You are the dead.” Suddenly, the two realize that a telescreen is hidden behind the picture of St. Clement’s Church. Stomping boots echo from outside; the house is surrounded. A familiar voice speaks the last lines of the St. Clement’s rhyme: “Here comes a candle to light you to bed / Here comes a chopper to chop off your head!”

- 1984, Chapter 10

[for-q-clinton]

It’s a radio transmitter it won’t matter. As soon as you turn it on it does its magic.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Disambiguator]

It’s a radio transmitter it won’t matter. As soon as you turn it on it does its magic.

Well, it's on for about two hours a year, so I'm not terribly concerned about it.

[JimRed]

WTH is a IOT device?

[cgbg]

I like my TVs and other appliances super-stupid...guess I need to send them to government schools to be sure....

[gr8eman]

The movie is actually pretty good!

[zeugma]

One nice thing about DD-WRT is that you can create a vlan that has no access to the outside world. Similarly, you can create a separate vlan that has external access only without access to your internal networks.