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I agree. Copy+pasting an old comment of mine from this old thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683924 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683924 >
by jwmullally 9y ago
I agree. Copy+pasting an old comment of mine from this old thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683924 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12683924
> A general solution to IoT security would be for all IoT devices to only communicate to your personally owned home gateway, which would run open-source drivers for each device to provide the networking/external communication functionality. The IoT device could even be assigned its own isolated network link to the router (i.e. sandboxed).
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThis is how my home works. My automation devices use Insteon, which is local only communication, and then my computer has an adapter for it that I wrote the software for.
- wepple 9y agoThis is a great solution to the ownership problem, but now each individual is responsible for patching and updating their 25 devices? Doesn't solve the security problem.
- pmontra 9y agoThe home gateway could download the patches and send them to the devices. Its firewall will prevent them to phone home or somewhere else no matter what into those patches.