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Free global wireless internet lets every device in your home spy without an easy way to firewall it off.
by SubiculumCode 10y ago
Free global wireless internet lets every device in your home spy without an easy way to firewall it off.
- SubiculumCode 10y agoAnd why was that down-vote worthy? Globally available FREE internet means that devices in our homes could bipass our routers to signal home with little ability to oversee and limit that signaling save throwing the device away and a faraday cage. Today the same is also possible with 3/4/5G antennas, true, but the cost of sending data over cellular networks on billable data accounts is probably just too cost prohibitive for IoT device manufacturers to do, so they just do it through your wifi.
- eloff 10y agoAn IoT device is not going to have a satellite hookup. The things are about the size of a pizza.
- pmontra 10y agoThey'll have local connectivity to the satellite antenna > Home Internet customers would receive a "low-profile user terminal that is easy to mount and operate on walls or roofs." You can place your firewall between your LAN and the antenna. However there could be devices with their own antenna, much like iridium phones. I googled for them and they are not cheap. Mass production could shave off a zero and bring them under $50. Maybe.