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I've recently changed my home network to ensure all IoT devices are on their own VLAN where they can't talk to each-other and only have access to the internet.
by koyote 3y ago
I've recently changed my home network to ensure all IoT devices are on their own VLAN where they can't talk to each-other and only have access to the internet.
I see my paranoia was not unwarranted.
That being said, if I had a network printer, I would've connected it to yet another VLAN I have set up which does not even have access to the internet.
Setting all this up required quite a bit of time, effort and networking/firewall knowledge. I wonder if there's a market for providing such capabilities out of the box for the less tech-inclined privacy-conscious consumers.
- qingcharles 3y agoI for one would pay for such a thing. I hate spending hours tinkering with network/firewall rules. It's dull as hell and a huge time sink to get everything right. And I have three decades of Linux knowledge. How is man-on-the-street supposed to do any of this stuff? :(
- shiroiuma 3y agoIt'd be nice if more routers were covered by OpenWRT, and if it had a really convenient "wizard" for setting this kind of thing up. Of course, both of these are hard problems.
- miki123211 3y ago> less tech-inclined privacy-conscious consumers That group is much smaller than most tech-conscious people imagine (at least outside of Germany). My experience with people outside of the tech bubble is that people care a lot more about privacy from their bosses / exes / partners / parents (and very occasionally law enforcement), but almost never about privacy from big companies. The only thing that actually makes people scared is seeing ads for products that they were recently discussing in person, and that's actually due to coincidence and search history, not, as they think, devices listening on them. I keep pointing this out every time the same thing happens on (linear) TV.
- 20after4 3y agoWhat makes you so sure that devices aren't listening? Apparently there used to be (maybe still is) a loophole where apps can listen for specific keywords the same way the phone listens for "hey siri" or "ok google" ... apps can stuff a whole bunch of keywords into the list and listen for them that way without explicitly processing all of the audio from your device.
- Suppafly 3y ago>but almost never about privacy from big companies Mostly because privacy prevents a lot of desirable features from working.