Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices

Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by t-writescode on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:26PM (#25194616)

There was a version of Awair devices that used 8.8.8.8 for DNS, no matter my pihole.

At the router level, I then forced all 8.8.8.8 traffic to be transformed into traffic to my pihole.

You can do the next step, but you need a router that supports it and the patience to handle it.

You shouldn’t need to do this.

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Re:Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdo... by Fnoord on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @01:54AM (#25196014)

I force all outgoing traffic to 53 not Pi-Hole IPs (I run redundant) to go to a Pi-Hole instead. Initially I did tgat for Chromecast. However, I doubt Chromecast still cares. Why do you think Google push Do{H,T}?

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