a good reminder for me to vlan properly at home.
I redid my home network this year largely to be able to get off of cloud-based cameras and properly VLAN untrusted devices.
Probably check on your smart appliances
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#22a good reminder for me to vlan properly at home.
What are you using for this in the home?
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#23My home appliances are all ZigBee/ZWave or ESP32-based WiFi devices. Good luck running botnets on them.
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#24> If I had to guess where most of this traffic is coming from, it's from compromised smart appliances contributing traffic to proxy networks. I find it interesting that we have a moral panic over giving people access to their own smartphones, because if the user has access they may get a virus, with negative knock-on effects on the internet... ...but there is no push to remove the same capabilities from smart applian…
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#25a good reminder for me to vlan properly at home.
What are you using for this in the home?
Not op but I have an opensense box and a semi managed switch and an couple of TP-Link omada controlled ap's for wifi.
It can make management a bit difficult if you're not careful, but I have wireguard listening on all the vlans so I can bypass any restrictions on any connection it can get my laptop onto if needed.
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#26> If I had to guess where most of this traffic is coming from, it's from compromised smart appliances contributing traffic to proxy networks. I find it interesting that we have a moral panic over giving people access to their own smartphones, because if the user has access they may get a virus, with negative knock-on effects on the internet... ...but there is no push to remove the same capabilities from smart applian…
Would be interesting to see a movement akin to Asahi / OpenWRT that enables me to run my side project on my fridge or tv!
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#27I cannot imagine ever connecting a TV or appliance to my home network. I even worry about my printer and Roku.
better than it connecting to one you don't own.
Or just keep it turned off entirely? Every "smart" device I have has the option to disable WiFi/bluetooth entirely so it doesn't even show up.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish I never thought of it. Just had a recent Samsung TV update, and now it has to sign in EVERY TIME it turns on. I'm considering how to frame it as a warranty job.
Factory reset it then never connect to the internet. Use another device you can control for streaming
> Use another device you can control for streaming
Streaming and "device you can control" are mutually exclusive.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish I never thought of it. Just had a recent Samsung TV update, and now it has to sign in EVERY TIME it turns on. I'm considering how to frame it as a warranty job.
Factory reset it then never connect to the internet. Use another device you can control for streaming
I'd be surprised if they didn't have anti-downgrade fuses or something and force you to connect and update. Or just overwrite the reset image.
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#30I cannot imagine ever connecting a TV or appliance to my home network. I even worry about my printer and Roku.
It's worse than that. If you don't add it, what's to stop someone else from adding it? A lot of them are just "press okay and it's added". There's no security and nothing to stop people from adding unclaimed applicances, except distance.