Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.

• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Then the cookies are going to be burnt

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• neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s always a possibility especially when every company under the sun is making smart things on a whim for as cheap as possible. I don’t trust any of them as far as I can throw an oven.

  I have a few random smart things, but before I connect them to the internet I make sure they have a decent api that I can use, block external access from the router and set up a little interface so that I can VPN into my home and control stuff if I need to. So in order for anything to be compromised my whole network would have to be owned. Which is still possible but I trust that a lot more than letting 20 different apps for each device have access to anything in my home.

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  • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Another way to say this is that a hacker needs only access to your private network to gain control of all connected devices.

    IMO this is hardly worth it when the benefits are I can my oven remotely or I can check what the vacuum is doing.

    I tend to not buy connected devices if it can be avoided.

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