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0 pointssaurik1y ago0 comments

I'm sure this will soon be solved using the hack of accessing shared Wi-Fi fabrics that some ISPs now offer (as in, the thing where the router will offer a generic network such as CoxWiFi, and allow random people to pay to use your WiFi; even if you don't have it, maybe your neighbor does)... and even then, new IoT longer-range WiFi services can act as a backstop.

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J_Shelby_J1y ago

Or inexpensive cellular modems.

Someone in the future will make decent money converting smart tvs to dumb tvs.

trod1231y ago

Its already happening with Amazon Sidewalk and LoRa bands.

Some of the larger ISPs are also piping cell phone communications to VOIP at the edge using built-in features in the modems, and these are hopelessly insecure by regulatory action.

Take a look at the Cypher-Con talk on cable modems. Pretty damning. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hk2DsCWGXs)

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