[–] 5 points 4 months ago

I looked it up; NETGEAR actually does quite a lot of analytic collection from their customers’ devices. They collect IP addresses, geolocation, how often you use the firewall and what you use the hardware for, what channels your Wi-Fi is set to, and what devices are connected to it.

Source: Darknet Diaries

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    the maximum penalty under the law of $5,000 per violation

    This is far too low in this context. Perhaps it should be a percentage of annual revenue or profit or something instead of a fixed amount.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It seems very easy to badly design a smart home though. For example adding devices to an ecosystem using your personal email. When selling the house you'd have to remove all devices and have the new owners set up everything again one by one. Seems unavoidable until better transfer tools exist OR linking everything to a "house email" OR having everything local and leaving behind the server

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    If the footage has left your premises and stored on someone else's machine (the cloud), it's now out of your control. It could be accessed by an employee, accidentally deleted/tampered, or handed over to a government entity without your knowledge. This applies to any brand of security cameras as well as file storage providers and even VPNs

    When motivated enough, governments can and do seize servers from data centers. A lot of the time companies rent them, so these vendors can't even directly guarantee their physical safety

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