@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
2025-10-19 16:39 UTC
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@quincy@chaos.social 2025-10-19 17:40
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange So important. I wish people wouldn't be so deliberately obtuse about this! "I have nothing to hide" is all fine and dandy until they start to expose other people's data to the collectors ... Which is all the time
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@maypop_neocities@wetdry.world 2025-10-19 17:58
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange completely irrelevant lmao but i had an idea recently for an actually-smart device to build which is a toaster with the following features reduces cook time when already hot so subsequent toasts aren't more toasted than the first toastdisplays the amount of energy the toast was just exposed to. you can write it down when you get a perfect toast, and input it later to get the same perfect toastpleasant chime that goes off like 7 seconds before the toast is done (time difference is so it pops out right when you get to the toaster from wherever else you were) also microwave ovens when they are beeping should let you stop the beeping immediately by pressing the stop button.
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@defzero@infosec.exchange 2025-10-19 18:24
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange use GrapheneOS. Though ironic, the only phone which is secure enough for the OS is Google's Pixel.
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@saharhemati21@mastodon.social 2025-10-19 18:26
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I only tell the truth, follow me.
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@swordgeek@mstdn.ca 2025-10-19 18:43
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I'm an old guy in IT. Like most of my contemporaries, I have NO smart devices at home. Our TV doesn't have a mic or camera, and is firewalled anyway. I have alight bulb that connects to wifi, and is blocked from going outside the house. The reason companies promote smart homes is for their benefit, not yours.
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@rainerku@mastodontech.de 2025-10-19 19:17
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Install the free DNS Server Software Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi, give it a static internal IP address on your router and configure your router to use the Raspberry as DNS Server. Then you can block any spy with a mouseclick and/or can download blocklists from GitHub or other sources.
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@LordCaramac@discordian.social 2025-10-19 19:25
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange It is entirely possible to build smart devices that work without all of that. If you aren't a DIY tech geek, it's very hard to buy such things though, and they're usually very expensive if you can even find them, because they aren't mass produced. You can build your own smart speaker using a Raspberry Pi, using nothing but local data for speech recognition and synthesis, there are plenty projects like that all over the Internet, but there aren't many good ones you can just buy and plug in, and those that exist are much more expensive than the big brands which are basically just surveillance devices. There are all kinds of smart devices that can be quite useful, but which I wouldn't use if I couldn't hack them and install some open source firmware. Most of the big brand names use proprietary protocols and can become entirely useless overnight once the company decides that they don't want to support five year old hardware anymore, and that all their customers should just replace everything every five years. There are vendor independent open standards that very few of the big systems actually support, and you need to learn a lot about the technology to actually use them in any meaningful way. Technology can be used to empower us all, but that is not what the big tech companies want. They want to use technology to keep us under control, keep us addicted, keep us locked in. Under Capitalism, the technology that could help us break out of the cage is rare, expensive, and needs a lot of work and expertise, while the technology that keeps us trapped is cheap and ubiquitous. Under authoritarian Socialism, it's even worse. Don't trust any hierarchical power systems.
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@tasket@infosec.exchange 2025-10-19 19:34
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange This could use an #IoT or #internetofshit tag.
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@Zoidtes@mastodon.online 2025-10-19 20:17
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange that matches with the trend that people "must" have a videocall in public
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@Transcedental@ieji.de 2025-10-19 21:10
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Correct
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@megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social 2025-10-19 21:49
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange But never forget! You can always shove garbage up a sucking pipe! :blobcatcoffee:
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@philpetree@mastodon.social 2025-10-19 22:07
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange If most people saw what their phones, apps, TVs and smart devices sent through a sniffer, they'd be mortified.
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@ecoscore@aus.social 2025-10-19 22:24
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Indeed. Should be a mandatory label declaration
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@chroma0@infosec.exchange 2025-10-20 01:05
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange "Oh I've used Facebook for a long time and haven't had any issues, I don't know what your problem with this is" ...the comment I got from someone when I voiced my displeasure with their glasses Never ceases to amaze me how some people are