including adding Wi-Fi circuits to make them smart bulbs
That’s how you can get your very own botnet, courtesy of some guy in China. Most of these shitty IoT crap never get any updates, and will probably serve most of their life as easy access points into your LAN.
I understand why smart home crap is the way it is, but can’t we just re-wire houses so I can have all that stuff be peripherals to a central computer I can keep up to date or rip out and replace with one I trust? make powerline ethernet ones for currently existing homes and have data ports be a part of new electrical codes
That’s how you can get your very own botnet, courtesy of some guy in China. Most of these shitty IoT crap never get any updates, and will probably serve most of their life as easy access points into your LAN.
I quarantine my IoT stuff in their own VLAN. They should be treated as untrusted devices, because they are, same as any BYOD network. Hack away!
You don’t need to connect them to the internet. You can just restrict them to only be accessible in your LAN.
I understand why smart home crap is the way it is, but can’t we just re-wire houses so I can have all that stuff be peripherals to a central computer I can keep up to date or rip out and replace with one I trust? make powerline ethernet ones for currently existing homes and have data ports be a part of new electrical codes
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