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> help me audit what my network is doing, and create firewall rules We need be a better solution than this! I already dread having to configure and tweak firew
by computator 11y ago
> help me audit what my network is doing, and create firewall rules
We need be a better solution than this! I already dread having to configure and tweak firewalls every time I add a new device or install a new application.
Even with the most user-friendly firewall in the world, we'll still end up in a world where 99% of users don't do anything and have no security/privacy. And the 1% of technical users will end up breaking basic functionality because they blocked something that the manufacturer of the device or app deemed to be an essential connection.
Thinking out of the box for a moment: If you install a camera, suppose your router automatically encrypted everything coming out of the camera such that it could only be decrypted on your smartphone, or whatever you're using to view the feed from your camera. The encryption, decryption, and keys are completely independent of and outside of the control of camera manufacturer. The encryption is unavoidable; even if they get a secret feed of the video, they cannot decrypt it.
Instead of the router, perhaps it's the device driver that does the encryption. The point is that this is something automatically done whenever you plug in a camera and which the camera manufacturer cannot subvert. (This idea is for cameras and such. For other kinds of IoT devices, this particular idea may or may not help.)