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What firewall rules can I put in place to block whatever telemetry my devices are shipping to you?
Block TCP connections on port 80 and 443 to dcs-global.samknows.com
My ISP can do what they want with their equipment but I prefer anything inside my firewall to not phone home.
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What do you mean, they clearly spell out how little they collect, in their privacy policy: > The amount of personally identifiable information stored by SamKnows is limited to; name, email, and address. All metadata and personally identifiable information is both encrypted at rest and in transit on SamKnows servers. It is never stored or transmitted to or from the test agent See? Nothing to worry about, just your nam…
That is only for people who volunteer to receive our custom hardware and we need the name and address to ship them the unit. For most units we have no name, address or any PII whatsoever.
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Block TCP connections on port 80 and 443 to dcs-global.samknows.com
Thank you. I appreciate the response. My ISP can do what they want with their equipment but I prefer anything inside my firewall to not phone home.
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Thank you. I appreciate the response. My ISP can do what they want with their equipment but I prefer anything inside my firewall to not phone home.
Likely it isn't within your firewall anyway. Our integrations are typically on the router supplied by your ISP.
I work at SamKnows, AMA (I know nothing)
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That is only for people who volunteer to receive our custom hardware and we need the name and address to ship them the unit. For most units we have no name, address or any PII whatsoever.
Thank you for the clarification. The descriptions I'm seeing imply that your telemetry code is embedded in network enabled devices. It's good to know that this data collection only applies to your whitebox.