Today's topic is about internet security on the home front. Most people will lock their doors and windows when they leave the house for any length of time, just to protect what's inside. But how well is your house locked down electronically? What got me on this topic is just now my robot vacuum sent me an alert that it found a cliff in my flat, one story apartment while cleaning today. Last time it gave me that alert it had just found a backpack and got tied up in the straps. The thing is, I'm not home. I'm about 20 miles away at the office today. So while I'll go home later and find out what happened, it made me think about what electronic windows are being left open at my house?
I've taken at least the most basic levels of security for my home internet. I've password protected both SSID's of the WiFi router, and the admin setup for that router has been changed from the defaults. But when I checked the other day, without my laptop turned on I had 12 devices connected to my router. 12! And the only one I was actively using was the phone!
In order for me to have received that alert from the vacuum this morning, the vacuum would have to be not only connected to the WiFi, but also punching a hole to get to the internet to alert a central server that the unit is stuck so that server can alert my phone. The question is, what comes back through that hole? Is there a way for someone to hitch a ride back through, and then poke around my network? I'm not sure, but it's something I'll be looking at tonight. Another consideration is how is the vacuum company using that information? I run the vacuum twice a week. Does that mean I'm a generally more clean person, so I might like ads for better ways to clean? Are there even deeper ways they can read into my information? I frankly don't know.
The level of security of anything is always a balancing act. Too secure and it's unusable. Too easy to use and it's a paper fence. So there will always be risks, but you need to be aware of the risks and be comfortable with that level of risk. Just using this platform, I'm feeding the Google Information Machine. It's a risk I've evaluated and I'm willing to take. Same thing with Amazon Alexa. By having that set up, I give Amazon the ability to know what I'm putting on lists, and possibly even what I say when I don't use the keyword to wake the unit (even though they deny that). But it's a trade off so I can have voice control lights and remote control of other aspects of my place.
Like anything, internet is a place you need to know the risks and be comfortable with them. More and more people are finding these things out and actively thinking them through. And that makes everyone a little safer in the long run.
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