The reporting in this piece is so bad. I have to wonder if the pen tester here took advantage of the WSJ’s total lack of awareness around how this stuff works, or the WSJ’s editorial staff knowingly embellished a story about how bad Wallbox is at IoT Device design.
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I’m a little late to this party. TL;DR Haier tried to bully a FOSS developer who was making their product more useful, and got schooled. I love it.
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After setting up a Pi-hole DNS server for my IoT network VLAN, it was time to configure the internal firewall so that devices on it wouldn’t be able to communicate with the other VLANs in an unsolicited way. Ubiquiti has an article posted on their site which lays the foundation for this goal, but it doesn’t quite meet my requirements […]
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Getting the perfect level of rareness in a steak or beef roast is not impossible with the right amount of planning, experience, and timing. But, even the reverse sear method is not as foolproof as sous vide (hot water immersion). Fortunately, the explosion of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices has benefited the home kitchen immensely with several network/app connected sous vide options […]
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This morning my sister, with whom I have an ongoing discussion around “smart device” privacy, sent me a link to Gizmodo’s “The House That Spied On Me”. As you can probably tell from the title, it’s mostly about how our connected devices collect and transmit information about us to The Cloud. Some of this is quite alarming, for e.g. Hulu […]
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I’m a big fan of these little IoT enabling kits, including the Arduino. Getting everything working with the various sensors can be a bit of a challenge (or a big one). This kit looks to help with that by providing standard interfaces to a pile of really useful sensors and a more user friendly IDE. ESLOV is a plug-and-play toolkit […]
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is coming. It just makes sense to put the devices around us on a network. To make them “smarter”. To make the data they possess available to us, and other devices also on that network to use, consume, and react to. This is scary, but it’s also really, really cool. Of course some OEMs have […]
Read moreEureka Park is one of my favorite things about going to CES. It’s a special place where pretty much anyone can come to the show and demonstrate their product. Most are actual products (like UPPER DESK), some will be soon, and others are still questing for funding. With Internet of Things (IoT) (which BTW is a horrible name, but since […]
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