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#1 40H3X

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Posted 26 August 2017 - 12:21

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Re: Security #2 MiLo

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Posted 26 August 2017 - 19:47

Smart TV's, media players (especially "streaming" ones), smart thermostats and iot refrigerators are all vulnarable to dozens of attacks from the outside. Users haven't got the foggiest idea of what's running on them, and their manufacturers couldn't care less about making them secure.

Only a matter of time before enterprising crimimals use drive-by hacking to get into your fridge or thermostat and spread malware from there to the rest of your local network, your home PC being the prime target for either bank fraude like changing the amount and account number just as you hit "confirm and send", or simply to ransom your family photo albums.

Currently the way to handle this is to stick one's head as deep into the sand as it will go, and hope for the best.

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Re: Security #3 Erik Slagter

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Posted 27 August 2017 - 09:25

Or don't use them (and / or make your own, like I do...)


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Re: Security #4 40H3X

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Posted 29 August 2017 - 09:29

Yes, make it yourself, it's as safe as you can get, but alas not for the masses! Nowadays many people are using IPcam's, bought for a nickel and a dime at obscure Chinese sites. When connected to a network these IPcam's are then accessible through an app from any place in the world, so right into their households and nobody questions the security aspects on these apparatus.

 

In earlier days, you needed some knowledge to access something from the WAN. Doing so, most were aware of the risks, when something becomes accessible from the "outside" and moved these apparatus out of there LAN to something like a DMZ.

 

Recently I scanned such an IPcam, 5 ports were open, on 2 (23 and 80) there was a service running. Looking at the firewall, there were many states from the IPcam, these states are there 24-7, right into your household.....

 

I seems that security and plug-and-play are inversely proportional…

 

 

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Re: Security #5 Erik Slagter

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Posted 1 September 2017 - 09:57

The problem, as always, is that we want "all for nothing". We want to join in on all of the current hypes, show off with our newest gimicks, but we don't want to make an effort for it (and also preferrably, we don't want to spend any money on it). And so this is what you get. I call it the "Apple syndrome", all these people dieing to show off the "innovative features" on their Apple phones, which I have been using for years (without Apple stuff...) already because I made it myself or which are simply copied by Apple from others. Irritating to the max.

 

Why don't we take a few steps back, where we accept that every person has knowledge of some area, respect each other for that and don't try to compete with each other on all areas. People that are not into technical stuff should just buy a simple phone, for a few bucks and use it for what they need it for. Equally technical gimmicks, people that are not knowledgeable about it, should not be using them. Like I don't tamper with my car, because I don't have the knowledge to do so.


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