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I usually turn off all "cloud" / Internet-accessible features of everything (and, where possible, even block things from Internet access), and then have a Wireg
by jhugo 4y ago
I usually turn off all "cloud" / Internet-accessible features of everything (and, where possible, even block things from Internet access), and then have a Wireguard VPN back to my home network. I think this is a better balance of security and usability than trusting that all of the NAS/camera/doorknob/printer/etc vendors are any good at securing these things.
- fulafel 4y agoThe use of VPNs to mitigate iffy security in self-hosted stuff is common but comes with its own problems, simultaneously it makes your self-hosted services harder to access (or impossible from some contextx), and it hurts security by making your system more complex (harder to understand & manage & monitor). They're also seemingly going out of fashion as zero-trust/beyondcorp/identity-aware proxies gain mindshare. Of course if you (along with friends and family) are all-in on a overlay network like tailscale it can be a different story.
- jhugo 4y agoActually, I find that a simple wireguard tunnel giving boring old IP routing to my home network is a far simpler setup than every device having its own opaque tunnel back to its vendor which I have to use a vendor-specific method of connecting to. Tailscale is also more complex, though a nice product. So far I haven't encountered any context where I couldn't connect to my wireguard tunnel, but YMMV.