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Comment by vvanders

In my mind it's a pretty gross violation of the principal of least privilege[1]. All it takes is one bad IoT device on your local LAN to exfiltrate/pivot over to the Hub. Some of the data that's dumped is things like "noise levels" which borders on sensitive PII information. Not to mention any vulnerabilities in these services that aren't understood yet.

For all those reasons and more the IoT stuff on my local network goes into a VLAN that only gets to see the gateway and nothing else. No local UDP, TCP or the like, the Ubiquiti gear I picked up a while back makes it pretty trivial to setup.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege

parent vvanders 8 years ago

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