Well its still going to have to get on a channel to communicate back to their mother ship and there are tools for untangling wifi traffic and you'll see it come across the logs in your firewall if they try to use wan to coms. By consumer gear i mean i switched to using old enterprise hardware for most of my network. juniper managed switches and run a custom built firewall behind the fiber ont. My wifi i use enterprise AP's for.
Ok.
Do your cell phone next, because it's doing the same shit. And if you manage to lock yours down, anyone who visits your house with their cell phone will still capture the snapshot.
See how it never ends?
That is how it is being sold. How it is actually going to work is you are going to be able to visualize what is going on on the other side of the gyproc between you and your neighbour.
It has existed for a dozen years in experimental form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZzNZnYIHo
We should look at investing in companies that start making faraday cages to be embedded into gyproc slabs, wallpaper and self adhesives I guess.
What if they get even just a little bit smart about it? Instead of just streaming data to a cia.gov server they could rent some Amazon cloud space and cache the data for some time and wait for you to connect to Amazon's cloud service for some other reason. When you make the connection for other services they could just piggyback their payload on those packets and you'd be none the wiser. You wouldn't even be able to see it if you were sitting there with wireshark watching for it.
Yeah they could shield traffic but i feel like if this was some kind of mass operation they are doing with everyone's gear someone would see it or notice eventually. If the eye of Sauron is focused on you it's probably best to just take all your electronic gear and chuck it in a river.
They can do it from the 5g towers. Forget your wifi aps. That's just the tech reaching the consumer level.
Whats your take on pfSense?
Amazing. But all linux and bsd forks will have vulnerabilities somewhere.
I've been using OpnSense at home which is a pfsense fork although I've used pfsense gear to build a vpn termination and proxy for some gear i wanted to secure out in the field for work. Either one is going to put you lightyears ahead as far as firewall security beyond whatever they are building into consumer wifi gateways.
Just curious - thats what I use now. I got the googlefiber in my neighborhood literally a month after we bought our house, and it was cheap af. Researching that made it seem like pfSense wouldn't work with it, but i've had no issues and everything seems nicely secured (all the tests I have run and had a much smarter ITSec guy run passed).
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