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.

    • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 days 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.

      • Jack@slrpnk.net
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        21 days 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.