Re:Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
by hackernewds on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:02AM
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Eye opening that your vacuum cleaner or smart bulb wants you to directly embed your WiFi password for set up. Not to mention, usually the cheapest ones are subsidized by, at best sales of your data, and at worst espionage and security backdoors.
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Re:Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
by webmobdev on Friday March 11, 2022 @03:26AM
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After my mom was bed ridden for some time, I reluctantly installed some Alexa enabled smart bulbs and switches, so that my mom could operate it by voice commands. But I made sure that I created a separate wifi guest network with low bandwidth to ensure Alexa / smart appliances don't waste the bandwidth unnecessarily (even if they leak the wifi password).