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- on Don't mind me. Keep enjoying your OS. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3d ago
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on We got a cybersecurity expert to hack this BYD. It was too easy in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
Reading this made me think about how people have devices like this all over their lives.
I would love for a consumer group like the EFF or IEEE or whatever to “certify” devices from a security standpoint. It could start as a marketing point from the manufacturers standpoint, a logo they could add that says someone looked at it.
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on [US] House passes bill requiring AM radio in all new cars sold nationwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
The cost they charge for buying a new car and the cost they pay for the parts of that car are very different things.
They will charge $50k with or without AM radio and would rather do it without.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
It doesn’t HAVE to be but it makes it easy to have a schedule that only runs in certain days and it allows me to turn it on from the other room.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
Yes, a coffee maker that connects to the internet does exist, usually for more than I spent on everything involved, and also usually with its own headaches.
I find that usually those devices all want their OWN app installed, so instead of just your home assistant, you have HA, and the Mr Coffee app, and the GE app, and whatever else, each with their own requests for telemetry and whatnot.
Building your own out of simple devices gives you more control and an easier vector to secure.
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on The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
I have a few “smart” plugs. I generally don’t use the app to turn them off or on, but being able to schedule them is what I think makes them valuable.
I bought the cheapest coffeemaker I could find that has a physical switch and plugged it into a smart switch so that it turns on every morning, Monday through Friday, at a specific time. On the weekends I do use the app because I can start the coffee brewing while I am still in bed and it will be ready when I get downstairs.
Could all of this be done without an IoT device? Yes, in college I had one of those old school mechanical timer switches to do the same thing. It is just that now I get more control over how it works.
The point of these isn’t just to “use an app” to do things you could easily do yourself, but to get additional functionality from an app that simply pushing a button couldn’t do.
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on ArsTechnica: Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they’re coming for monitors. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
So the next solution is to let it connect to your network but then block it at the firewall. That way you have full control over what it sees.
It is a dumb arms race between consumers and the devices they purchased
There is the old adage “Nobody got fired for going with Microsoft”, and it is real.
If you, as an IT guy recommend Linux, and some exec has a problem with his laptop (which they would have had no matter what OS is running on it) it WILL be your fault because you changed something.