There are more and more IoT devices, such as webcams, light bulbs, home automation controls and sensors and such things appearing.
Is anybody keeping a shortlist of those that are suitable for use in an environment where freedom and security requirement are not laughed at? There are four disturbing trends in this space: - no source code - proprietary protocols - doing everything through a cloud server - crowdfunding the devices, which implies some community involvement, but only making a token effort to release the code or API and only for the first few months Even where source code is available, such as the Foobot[1], it appears hard-coded (without[2] HTTPS!) to submit data to their own cloud server and the developer API involves polling the cloud server rather than the actual device. Regards, Daniel 1. https://github.com/airboxlab 2. https://github.com/airboxlab/Firmware/blob/master/User_firmware/post.c#L156 _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
