Reply to post: IOT well secured??? WTF!

Buried in the hype, one little detail: Amazon's Alexa-on-a-chip could steal smart home market

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IOT well secured??? WTF!

I did a little test recently. I setup a an OpenWiFi network that was totally air gapped from my home network which is really locked down. It wasn't connected to the outside world but looked as if it was.

I left it running for a couple of days and then looked at the logs.

Was there zero traffic? was there heck. Several IoT devices from next door but one had connected to it within minutes and were phoning home, or trying to every few seconds.

They were oblivious to the way their gadgets operated and really just didn't care.

IoT secure? Think again.

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