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Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by mulmen on Monday November 23, 2020 @05:06PM (#25192510)
That still doesn't help with direct IP communication. You'd have to block all traffic except services you want to interact with. That probably means never getting a firmware update or at least uploading some telemetry when you allow a connection back to the mothership for a firmware update.

There's no winning with IoT.

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Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by gowld on Monday November 23, 2020 @05:58PM (#25192921)
> There's no winning with IoT.

There's no winning when a third party controls the lowest-level software of a thing on the internet. That includes your general purpose computers.

Unless you are the owner of the signing keys down to the bottom of the stack, your system can be remote-controlled.

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Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by jrcii on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:05PM (#25194469)
It's called a network tap, or port mirroring.
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