I stumbled across a project called pihole that makes a pi a hygiene proxy. I ripped from it the logic that does the "bad guy" list maintenance which includes some windows and apple spyware address ranges. A dynamic blacklist would be the way to go in my opinion. The system blackholes the dns entries. I like it. David On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 9:34 PM o1bigtenor via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2017-06-14 06:49 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
don't want the stupid thing to be transmitting. According to the 'idiots' selling the thing it will only transmit AFTER its been logged onto the companies 'cloud' (like I'm going to pay for insecurity!!). There seems to be no understanding that 1. I don't want their access to my data
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Somehow the sellers (and manufacturer) are missing the point that if the machine can send cell phone signals it can also receive them - - - and I won't allow that if I can help it.
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How could I disable this 'feature'?
One option is to attempt to root the device (if it is the type to have a root mode) and see if you can disable it. The other option is to see if you can install some kind of firewall software to at least limit it will listen to and/or send to.
Greetings
These ideas are pretty good ones, and I am looking into them, but all of this presupposes at least a somewhat willing machine user (willing to root or physical changes or ????). What about the other 95% of the users who have no idea how vulnerable they are. I'm thinking a better thing would be start a 'shame' list that gets broad-casted at the next major computer security conference of the multi-nationals that are using an implied consent from their customers placing those same customers in a (computer/telecommunications type) potentially very vulnerable position of not really having their personal health information given the security it deserves. The sales reps are talking about how it meets the standards but they sure are answering questions when I'm asking about any controls on outside calls into the machine that might alter its functions!
What say you to this form of push for a change?
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