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I do not trust random devices that plug into my home network. All connected devices are on a 'guest' network and firewalled (openwrt) from my other machines.
by jhulla 11y ago
I do not trust random devices that plug into my home network. All connected devices are on a 'guest' network and firewalled (openwrt) from my other machines.
When I go to a cafe with my laptop, I run it in fully firewalled mode (no incoming connections of anysort).
At home, I want my machines to be more promiscuous. With the promiscuity comes various concerns. Whether it is my 1Password safe, my health and financial records, whatever - I don't want some $30 connected device to connect to my home network and publish a port to the outside world that permits tunneling into my inside network.
Unfortunately, outside of sandboxing/firewalling, I do not have the time to implement a tracking system to see what devices doing what.
Anyone else feel more safe with connected devices at home? What do you do?
- chrismbarr 11y agoThere's no perfect security, and honestly it sounds like you're already going above & beyond what most people would be doing anyway.
- newman314 11y agoNot really which is why I have not really gotten started with the whole IoT thing. I plan to use vlans to segregate as well as iptables. I'm not fond of the arcane nature of iptables and started researching only enable unidirectional initiated traffic from my normal network to the isolated IoT network (IoT gets access to internet) yesterday before giving up as it was too late. Suggestions welcome.