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I caught my TV doing this and went to war. For the last two years I have had a service running that floods garbage data back to the collection point from sever
by jaimex2 10y ago
I caught my TV doing this and went to war.
For the last two years I have had a service running that floods garbage data back to the collection point from several addresses throughout the Internet.
You're welcome.
- hoppa_liza 10y agoCare to elaborate on this? How you caught it, what and how are you sending back to them?
- djsumdog 10y agoI'm curious too. Do you have a blog post detailing it?
- Godel_unicode 10y agoCan't speak for OP, but my solution involved the words pfSense, tcpdump, bro, and squid.
- hueving 10y agoWell played. This is the kind of stuff botnets should be put to work doing. :)
- voltagex_ 10y agoI know we can't expect the "average" consumer to do this, but thanks for caring and running tcpdump on your network! It amazes me that with a lot of these stories there's no one popping up with a pcap showing exactly what's going on. I'm hoping projects like Turris Omnia [1] will allow people to be more in control of what goes in and out of the LAN - my network, my rules. 1: https://omnia.turris.cz/en/ https://omnia.turris.cz/en/
- ktta 10y agoYou don't really need a open source router. Just something that can be flashed with Openwrt or dd-wrt. The router you linked actually runs a fork of Openwrt. https://openwrt.org/ https://openwrt.org/
- voltagex_ 10y agoYeah, they're pretty rare in Australia due to our reliance on ADSL - unless you flash with DD-WRT. It's still not something everyone does. OpenWRT and DD-WRT's UIs are pretty rough (although, most commercial UIs are, too)
- cybergoat 10y agoI'm running OpenWRT on a TP-Link TL-WR841N/ND v8 and the LuCI interface that comes out of box is vastly better (cleaner and more feature-full) than the majority of consumer router interfaces I've encountered. In particular, the realtime graph of current connections! You can likely set your ADSL modem into "bridge mode" and put a user-flashable device between that and your network. Once you get NBN you just connect the WAN port to the NBN termination box and you'll be getting DHCP from your ISP.
- voltagex_ 10y agoI'm on the NBN now. Configuring OpenWRT had been a pretty steep learning curve but it's worth it in the end.
- alirazaq 10y agoGlad to know someone is giving them hell. I purchased a Vizio TV on black friday and suspected that all manufacturers would be doing something like this. For that reason I never configured it to access my wireless network. Scary to realize that it was actually happening and at this scale.
- TwoBit 10y agoGood luck defending those cyber hacking charges that are going to be brought against you.
- noonespecial 10y agoIt would be nice to rope in some chan-ners and a bot net or two. I think the data should say that the entire country watched a certain Rick Astley video on repeat for the next year.
- ktta 10y agoIs it an unsecured or secured connection? Can you make a connection? You might want to check if they just blocked your IP addresses and your connections are being dropped. Although if you're been running it for 2 years(!), I think you have it covered. Just a tip: It's very easy to clean up completely garbage data from a database. Any data scientist worth their salt would do that. Getting rid of your garbage data just needs a couple lines of code. What you need to do is, skew the data so that it isn't suspicious but eventually will mess up their inferences.
- deadbunny 10y agoAnd it will have taken them no effort to blacklist your IP for sending junk data.
- sosborn 10y agoI'd love more details on this. It would make a great supplement to something like Pie-hole.