I stumbled across a project called pihole that makes a pi a hygiene proxy. I ripped from it the logic that does the "bad guy" list maintenance which includes some windows and apple spyware address ranges. A dynamic blacklist would be the way to go in my opinion.
The system blackholes the dns entries. I like it. David On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 9:34 PM o1bigtenor via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> > wrote: > >> On 2017-06-14 06:49 AM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: >> >>> don't want the stupid thing to be transmitting. According to the 'idiots' >>> selling the thing it will only transmit AFTER its been logged onto the >>> companies 'cloud' (like I'm going to pay for insecurity!!). There seems >>> to be no understanding that 1. I don't want their access to my data >>> >> [snip] >> >>> Somehow the sellers (and manufacturer) are missing the point that if the >>> machine can send cell phone signals it can also receive them - - - and I >>> won't allow that if I can help it. >>> >> [snip] >> >>> How could I disable this 'feature'? >>> >> >> One option is to attempt to root the device (if it is the type to have a >> root mode) and see if you can disable it. The other option is to see if you >> can install some kind of firewall software to at least limit it will listen >> to and/or send to. >> >> > Greetings > > These ideas are pretty good ones, and I am looking into them, but all of > this presupposes at least a somewhat willing machine user (willing to root > or physical changes or ????). What about the other 95% of the users who > have no idea how vulnerable they are. I'm thinking a better thing would be > start a 'shame' list that gets broad-casted at the next major computer > security conference of the multi-nationals that are using an implied > consent from their customers placing those same customers in a > (computer/telecommunications type) potentially very vulnerable position of > not really having their personal health information given the security it > deserves. The sales reps are talking about how it meets the standards but > they sure are answering questions when I'm asking about any controls on > outside calls into the machine that might alter its functions! > > What say you to this form of push for a change? > > Dee > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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