Ah yes, smart lights need Tor. - eviltoast

I have this old TP-Link smart lightbulb, it’s the only thing that’s IoT and on WiFi in my house.

Looking through pfBlocker logs for fun, and noticed it’s been trying to connect to the Tor network.

Oh! Also, it’s been uploading and downloading 100+ MB of data a day.

  • errorlab@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    204·
    10 months ago

    It’s on it’s own VLAN from the beginning. Wanted to poke around but never got to it.

    I still have it connected, want to use for practice.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      Good on you. I use the poor man’s VLAN–guest Wi-Fi network to isolate my IoT devices.

      • errorlab@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        62·
        10 months ago

        Will do. It’s part of a long list.

        Don’t know my ADHD will hyper focus on it tho haha

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
      24·
      10 months ago

      I have no idea of all the details, but in legal terms this is called “res ipsa loquitur” – in this case, the fact that it clearly seems compromised is pretty solid evidence that it wasn’t immune to compromise.

      • errorlab@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        31·
        10 months ago

        Expected since TP-Link stopped updating them shortly after release.