We can eliminate some security gaps in our smart household devices — here's how
Last week, after realizing that I had no idea what my partner had filled my house with — and how our security and privacy might be compromised — I took a deep dive into the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in my home. I found eight different smart devices that were spying on me to various degrees, from “actually not spying” to “now China knows everything about me.”
Those devices were:
Vizio Smart TV
Sonos One
Nest Thermostat
Google Nest Hub
iRobot Braava Jet m6
Roborock S6 Vacuum
Google Chromecast
Eufy Smart Scale
This week, I figured it was time to actually close some of those security and privacy gaps. First step: Securing our home network. Your Wi-Fi router is the virtual entrance to your home, so ensuring it has a strong password is always the very first thing to do when you’re working on at-home security. You can also make sure your router has a firewall, which protects your home against everything from malware to hackers.
I also checked with my partner to make sure that our smart devices were on guest networks. This ensures that if one of them is compromised, it won’t act as an access point to everything else on our network. Each network needs to have its own name and own password, so that info gathered from them can’t be used on the others.
And speaking of passwords, I also checked to mak ..
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