▲ 424 ▼ New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. (lemmy.ca) submitted 2 years ago* by northendtrooper@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org 118 comments fedilink hide all child comments CAFE by GE for those who are wondering. We are renovating our house including all new appliances. I have told my partner to make sure we get non smart appliances. This is why. Yes I can setup a VLAN for it to be on but that's not the point.
[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) And what if someone else downloads the app and turns in on? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago Then the cookies are going to be burnt permalink fedilink source parent [–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years 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 check my oven remotely or I can check what the vacuum is doing. I tend to not buy connected devices if it can be avoided. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago Then the cookies are going to be burnt permalink fedilink source parent
[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years 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 check my oven remotely or I can check what the vacuum is doing. I tend to not buy connected devices if it can be avoided. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years 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 check my oven remotely or I can check what the vacuum is doing. I tend to not buy connected devices if it can be avoided. permalink fedilink source parent
