Mainstream tech advice treats cheap Wi-Fi smart plugs as harmless convenience, totally glossing over how much telemetry leaks out to overseas cloud servers by default.
Expecting casual users to set up VLANs and firewall drop rules just to stop a £10 light bulb from phoning home is a bit of a joke.
True privacy means local control without corporate middlemen.
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I mean, you can – that’s what consumer protection regulations are for. It’s why people can’t sell themselves into slavery even I’d they’re stupid enough to want to, for example.
We could do things like, say, entirely outlawing closed-source software in smart home tech, if our government weren’t usurped by oligarchs.