Posted on 07/02/2021 9:34:21 AM PDT by 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?
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there was a post a while ago about amazon ring and other devices setting up a mesh network for themselves using your wifi.
I still do not think this is a bad thing necessarily as long as the functionality is documented and user controllable.
the main problem is people not understanding what they and their devices are doing.
I am not saying people are stupid, but they are uneducated.
I consider myself uneducated on many subjects but still I increase my own education every day.
If I somehow thwart their plan they will still decommission my current phone next February. I especially like the part where they have full control over the new phone, and are able to activate it at will. Next time I'm in DC they can inform the PTB that a wrong-thinker is in town.
https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/2016/01/13/guess-what-requires-150-million-lines-of-code/
I understand systems like this, but there is no way in hell I could ever get access to the source code, let alone audit it all.
I can borrow a tech2 or I have a copy of dis/inpa depending on which car I need to mess with, but that only exposes what the factory considers necessary.
I considered a Tesla, but my risk tolerance is low.
I was talking to Jeff Ashby CSO of Blue Origin about this once, I would not jump out of a perfectly good airplane, while that does not bother him, and he blasts his ass off into space..
Internet Of Things, I think.
“IOT device?”
Interaction over thought.
Do you use a CPAP. Your sleep and breathing levels are transmitted. There are around 8M CPAP users in the US according to Forbes. Your doctor knows your breathing problems and Medicare knows if you’ve been using the machine so they can stop paying for it if they feel you haven’t been using it enough by receiving these transmissions. Make sure you get 4.5 hours a night on the machine so you won’t have to go to war with Medicare on this topic. That currently is the Medicare standard.
Never mind they are breaking HIPPA Laws: “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient’s consent or knowledge.”
https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/publications/topic/hipaa.html#:~:text=The%20Health%20Insurance%20Portability%20and,the%20patient‘s%20consent%20or%20knowledge.
I may not wish to have a clerk somewhere seeing what I’m doing in my bedroom.
wy69
>> WTH is a IOT device?
Typically the combination of some type of appliance and microcontroller that provides sensor data to a remote data facility. The more advanced IoT devices provide additional control and communication capabilities.
Some devices have become somewhat nosy by transmitting audio and other environment data that we normally consider to be private.
That would be the “sidewalk” platform.
Illuminati Overlord Tattletales
“Internet Of Things”
That’s even more retarded than “Immature Ovarian Teratoma.” I’m going with the latter, out of principal.
That’s good, too.
Principle.
“Internet Of Things” - smart devices talking to other smart devices over wifi, bluetooth, etc.
Doorbells that send a picture of who’s on the porch to your phone, no matter where you are... Apps that control your garage door from anywhere on earth... Those little devices that track the location of your keys... The refrigerator that has a camera showing what’s inside that you can pull up on your cell phone... Cameras that show traffic flow and tell the central computer to adjust the traffic lights or open/close lanes...
Sometimes also referred to as “IOE” the Internet of Everything.
That’s a better explanation. Thanks. I hate when folks lazily drop undefined acronyms in titles and text and expect folks to just “keep up.”
I’d agree with that!
Since you can run DD-Wrt you should check into setting up a PFSense router. You can do it on the cheap. I did. Old PC I wasnt using anymore. $12 IBM decommissioned server (Intel Pro) 4 port gigabit card from Fleabay. It runs very well and is secure. My IOT stuff (No mics, no cams, no spying) is hard firewalled through an old netgear 2.4 access point with its own dedicated and tagged port. Separate network completely running through a separate VPN tunnel. Firesticks, same, with their own 5GHZ network and port. My stuff runs through the rest. Every network separately VPN tunneled.
There is a steep learning curve to PFSense but it is short. Once you know it you are in 1000% control of your network. You can do a lot with it. Tools like Suricata and PFBlocker-NG are very very very nice. Google them.
No mysteries on your network. You know everything. I have an enterprise grade router for $12, and it outperforms the most expensive wireless routers on the market by orders of magnitude in capacity as well as features. Your current WiFi just becomes dumb access points, and performance goes up because you arnt asking much from them.
You dont need a very capable computer. BSD, the underlying OS is extremely efficient. You need a descent retired server Intel based multiport card (best comparability, but others work) and a computer most people would chuck in the trash.
I highly highly recommend it. Traffic shaping QOS and stateful packet inspection and VPN bring the little chinese boxes to their knees. Pick one. This says, yes to all at the same time, and what else do you need, with 4 gig of ram and a 2.66 core duo with a tiny SSD. $40 computer on a good day with a $12 card and free open source software.
BTW, It scales. Put some iron behind it and you could easily handle a network with 1000’s of nodes and want to scale further, it scales load balancing everything between the boxes.
Most of the time like when 2 firesticks are going and I am downloading or uploading and a cpl people are browsing the CPU sits barely above idle at under 10% load with full stateful inspection making sure no yucky exploit or malware or worse stuff gets into my network, blocking adds, blocking china, blocking other problematic ips, etc.
That’s a good idea. I took my security cameras offline because there is no doubt that the feeds get sold to whoever is willing to pay.
Thanks. I will look into it.
Good, although they got you in your camera and speaker, etc. on your phone, supposed “home security”, etc.
Also, they can get through via satellite tv and cable tv “services”, etc.
‘user controllable.”
You actually believe that you can control/limit/etc. their access to your electronics and tech., etc.? If so, you are very gullible.
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