Are Your Devices Hardwired for Betrayal?
Everything needs a firewall. I'd like my own local wifi MiTM proxy that my devices connect to, running privoxy all of the time. Those devices should run inside of a VPN, they run inside of the matrix.<p>IoT is both wonderful and scarily dystopian.<p>I'd like my eeproms on those devices to have their write enable pins snipped, I'd like to know when someone attempts to reprogram it. I'd also like hashes of my firmware compared globally so I knew my firmware isn't special. Fuck serial numbers. Root yourself before you are rooted. Backdoor yourself so their firmware hacks fail. I have > 10 mems microphones within 20 feet of me. So probably do you. How many gates does <a href="http://opus-codec.org/" rel="nofollow">http://opus-codec.org/</a> require? 600GB stores 5 years of continuous audio @ 32kbits. Serial EEPROMS already in your devices can store 10s of hours of audio, recording while suspended, while _off_. Nothing is ever off anymore. Instant on, soft switches, privacy traded so we don't have to watch dmesg.<p><a href="http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Spansion/S25FL512SAGMFI011/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtI%252bQ06EiAoG1RQFMcWZI18i1xIhD%2fuMH8%3d" rel="nofollow">http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Spansion/S25FL512SAGMFI0...</a><p>I'd like all sensors to have an on-off switch that I control. I'd like phone to turn off when I tell it to, not just sleep. I'd like my batteries to have bluetooth connection that forces devices to be off, not just the power button I do not control.<p>We should assume every piece of hardware we own is backdoored and remotely controllable by any state level actor.