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Are you okay with it contacting servers in the US? Other countries? If so, which? Where do you draw the line? Personally, I run my smart home fully locally, bu
by malermeister 4y ago
Are you okay with it contacting servers in the US? Other countries? If so, which? Where do you draw the line?
Personally, I run my smart home fully locally, but it's interesting to me to see the geographic location of the server emphasized so strongly.
- mmastrac 4y agoLet's be realistic. We're in a complicated time. If you're in the western world, you really should consider avoiding IoT devices that call home to Chinese servers. You could be turning yourself into a potential botnet member if things go geopolitically sideways by keeping these products on your network. If you have access to other networks from home, you're inviting access into those networks from a box that should only be there for streaming music. Better if things don't call home at all, but second best is choosing western servers under control of western actors. I hope that one day we no longer have to consider the political origin of servers our devices to call back to, but that's a few years away at least. In the meantime, devices that call back to noone are still the best.
- malermeister 4y agoI don't disagree with what you posted, but I find it naive to believe that a "western" server doesn't expose you to the same risk.
- grepfru_it 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
- mensetmanusman 4y agoSame risk, different rule of law
- justatdotin 4y ago* you could be turning yourself into a potential botnet member wherever the server is * you're inviting access into those networks wherever the server is