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Originally Posted by haertig
I had a cheap video camera that some people questioned it's connections to external IP addresses.
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You aren't being paranoid. Issues have been unauthorised viewing and also bot net operators simply using them as more fire power, because not only is connection insecure but the OS FW insecure too.
Internet of Things (IoT) is a disaster:
Security (3rd party access & used to profile house use)
Privacy (supplying company spying for Ad info and Amazon gives Ring files to Police without warrant!)
Bricking. Devices that can only be configured via supplier's server and either it's offline, or your internet is lost or supplier closes service.
I would not use anything that needs the Internet to work day to day other than Web Browser and email.
Tesco supermarket had an own brand tablet. It connects to Internet on a Factory reset and after they stopped selling them they turned off the server. Thereafter any tablet factory reset was bricked. Tesco denied they switched off the servers (2016?) and said the ver1 and Ver2 were EOL anyway. As of 2022 you need to root and install hacked FW on the Hudl.