I wonder what the prevalence of these IoT devices is doing to internet security. Your router firewall might prevent incoming connections, but these stupid devices are always dialing out to god knows where. Can that be used to compromise security?
I recently installed deep packet inspection in my firewall and it’s quite illuminating to see all of what’s going on. Why are devices in my home connecting to India?
I made a separate wifi network for the smart trash, they can't see each other and aren't allowed any ingress or egress. I then add individual firewall rules on a needed basis.
Personally I just gave up trying to maintain OpenWRT/whatever on the embedded ARM dumpster fire, and went back to using a generic Linux distro (NixOS) on amd64 machines for both router and APs (with appropriate minipcie wifi cards).
Reminder, HN, you all live in the real world. Chinese state sponsored cyber threat actors use orb networks that are primarily made via strung together off the shelf routers. The literal companies that build and maintain these ORB networks also resell this capability to Russian military intelligence and cyber threat actors.
They just made up a fancy term for the age old proxy... Basically lifting the longstanding criticism of their "attribution" into their realm of bespoke nouns as if it's something exceptional.
(I also found it extra annoying as my current working expansion of ORB is O-Ring Boss)
I recently installed deep packet inspection in my firewall and it’s quite illuminating to see all of what’s going on. Why are devices in my home connecting to India?
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