On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 01:06, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2021-12-25 at 12:19 -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> The joy of IoT: devices that are treated as appliances: never
> get patched and are updated by being tossed and replaced with one
> with newer vulnerabilities.
And house lighting that's out of your control when the remote server
controlling it goes down...
I have fibre TV and internet service. The fibre modem has a battery, but
if the power is out for longer than 20 minutes, the set-top boxes try to
reconnect and fail before the modem comes back. At work I had problems
with a computer room A/C that was installed without the proper delay relay
needed to prevent tripping the breaker (located in a locked closet). I
suppose we will need a whole house systemd to ensure all the circuits come
up in the proper sequence.
My ISP supplied my modem/router years ago, then sent me a new one
recently. It was worse than the old one. I don't know if it's any
better or worse security-wise, but operationally speaking it's a
disaster.
the set-top boxes. The set-top boxes wouldn't talk to the replacement
switch (I assume they use some non-IP ethernet protocol the new
switch doesn't support). Fortunately it was easy to move the cables
feeding the set-top boxes to my ISP supplied modem/router.
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George N. White III
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