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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not everybody has the money for an extra router.

No need for an extra router. I just put those device into the "has no internet access" group. It is one of those "Parental Control" things. Every device inside the net can see and talk to it, but itself cannot talk to anything outside.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Until the router needs to be reset, or something else happens to it.

That's what "configuration backups" are for. You've got some, don't you?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Who, me? I never thought about it before because I like to live dangerously