Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.
Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.
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@jensorensen@mastodon.social Yes. An article I wrote relates and affirms.
@mrdelong@mastodon.online Great article, thanks.
@jensorensen@mastodon.social What I wanted: My appliance to let me connect to view and control a few features. What we got: Our appliances let unseen agents of mega-corporations and their licensees to connect to collect nearly unlimited information on us in return for letting us view and control a few features, until one of them decide the steam of information isn't lucrative enough, at which time the service is shuttered and the appliance stops functioning at all.
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"How did humans get along for millennia without wifi-connected kitchen appliances?"
That's the question of the century.
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Reasons I specifically seek out "dumb appliances" and "dumb fixtures" for my "dumb home". 😅
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Which reminds me. I occasionally shop at #Ocado and have never had a problem with the process... except the other day I could no longer get the 'login' button to 'stay depressed'. After spotting some 'interesting' traffic I tried (temporarily) relaxing my firewall rules wrt certain g00gle domains and, et voila, all was 'normal'.
#WTF #privacy #surveillance #consumer #security #comsec #thirdpartyparasites
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The Internet of Things isn't benign.
It's an additional revenue stream from selling your privacy to 3rd parties, foreign & domestic.
It's driving up utility rates everywhere.
That artificially inflated demand is misused as justification to thwart a fossil fuel...
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@jensorensen@mastodon.social my toaster has been sending me obscene texts
@jensorensen@mastodon.social I have a Roomba app on my phone that tells me when my "dumb Roomba" got stuck.
Ideally I'd put that Roomba on its own vlan to separate it from the other networked devices, but I don't have the hardware or the skills to do that.
But what tradeoff am I making with the app? What data can it collect? How would I even know? Is it in the terms and conditions or is it secret data harvesting?
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A more William Gibson development is that these things are now an enormous vector for being captured and used to attack targets on the internet.
(Look up "Mirai")
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owning and driving a car was fun many years ago. but these days cars have full data collection something, therefore cars feels ichy and scary, basically not fun.
something needs to be done for this surveillance capitalism in cars.
@zetabeta@mastodon.social I was just reading about this. It's much worse than I thought.
@jensorensen@mastodon.social air fryers are dumb
@jensorensen@mastodon.social excellent comic
i've definitely reached a point where i will do anything i can to avoid 'smart' appliances.
prolly gonna move toward actively destroying them within a few years 🤣