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Lango1818:
If I ever get drunk and silly enough to order anything from TEMU again, I must remember to leave delivery instructions for the posty to put whatever I ordered straight into the bin. TEMU sells absolute rubbish. LOL. Five items ordered, five pieces of shit.  :palm:

This brings me to the subject of internet security. With our open and free market absolutely flooded with Chinese gadgets and apps, including security cameras, video door bells, the TEMU app and many more.

One has to wonder. ::)
When you operate these various items, like my no name video doorbell or my al cheapo security camera system, the gadgets all want to use your WIFI and you need to put your Wi-Fi password in. They all require you to log into their website to use their cloud.

A super trustworthy outfit like the CCP, that does not use slave labour or preform body organ harvesting or steal technology and probably owns all of the companies that make said gear, surely we can trust them.

These said gadgets, surely would not report straight back to the CCP mother ship giving them access to your home Wi-Fi your home computers, phones and everything else we currently seem to connect to the internet. :o

Since the CCP does not recognise copyright, they have probably stolen the algorithms for all of the virus programs and have their top coders finding back doors.

One would think this is a massive security breach happening right under our noses and nobody cares.
I would love to know of a program/app that lets you know what is going out of your home network into the wide wide world of the internet.

PS - I have been contacted by Nnamdi Umbombu official top government lawyer Nigeria. He tells me of a gold mining billionaire who died tragically in a plane crash. I am the only living relative it seem. So after I supply him with my bank account details and a small processing fee the money is mine. I am off to live the high life. So long suckers LOL. :-DD

madires:
Wireshark for example.

dferyance:
One problem with all these cloud accounts is password re-use. Even if the cloud account has nothing of any value or private it can open you up to other hacks. I use a password manager but even with that, I've been bad about password re-use. Also, there are still logins that don't store a hash but instead store your actual password. So this opens you up to leaked passwords.

unseenninja:
I don't buy any IOT devices which depend on a third party server. Doing so is a poor choice, not only because you might get owned or roped in to a botnet, but even if the supplier is legitimate, if they go out of business, your device turns into e-waste.

It happens more often than you would think that devices from China come with back doors or malware pre-loaded. The various Android powered TV streaming boxes being one of the best examples.

Analog Kid:

--- Quote from: unseenninja on October 31, 2024, 06:57:00 pm ---I don't buy any IOT devices which depend on a third party server. Doing so is a poor choice, not only because you might get owned or roped in to a botnet, but even if the supplier is legitimate, if they go out of business, your device turns into e-waste.

--- End quote ---

I don't buy any IOT devices--period.

I think they should all be shitcanned. When the zombie apocalypse comes there's going to be so much superfluous crap clogging up our lives and the planet ...

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