On 11 January 2018 at 08:47, Robert Brown via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
Does this:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akita/akita-instant-privacy-for-smart-h...
do anything special that is not already available in linux software? Apart from a neat packaging exercise of course?
Quoting [1]: How does this device work, exactly? It uses a custom form of WiFi sniffing to detect questionable packets and send them to our servers to be analyzed (this is why the hardware can run on low memory/CPU, because it's mainly a cloud-based system). Once the packets are determined to be malicious, a command is sent from our servers back to the Akita device; this includes custom protocol commands to disconnect the device from the network router. Keep in mind, this packet monitoring is high-level and does NOT include any personal information, nor does it require any credentials for specific IoT devices. [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akita/akita-instant-privacy-for-smart-h...