Devices Phoning Home
Instead of making individual post for each home device that is unnecessarily phoning home , we will just list some samples here.
Devices phone homing unnecessarily to their manufacturers WITHOUT asking for explicit permission is not only a dangerous practice because uncontrolled connection back to the device manufacture at any time for whatever purpose can not just leak personal data on their devices but hackers can turn their devices in an attack platform to exploit ALL other devices on the local network.
Popular examples:
- Brother Printers
- Hikivision Cameras
When making your next purchase thinking about the security on your home network, it is difficult to build your own printer to replace the Brother but you can now have options of your building your own cameras to replace the Hikvision: