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Unless you are ok living with pwned routers, printers, you don't want devices with javascript-enabled web browsers and other random 3rd party software, like app
by zzzcpan 8y ago
Unless you are ok living with pwned routers, printers, you don't want devices with javascript-enabled web browsers and other random 3rd party software, like apps, to have access to anything on local network or at least not when they have access to the internet.
- ubercow13 8y agoWait what? Are you saying for example at home you would not allow your PC access to anything else on your LAN?
- forapurpose 8y agoHome equipment often is relatively poorly secured. The reality is that intra-LAN communication causes contagion to spread easily, that blocking intra-LAN communication can be very inconvenient, and that often there is no good solution. At least restrict it as much as possible. For example, allow connections only to the printer, if that is needed, and maybe only in one direction - and lock down that printer. But consider walk-up printing via USB cable: People print much less often these days and they have to walk over to the printer to pickup the document anyway.