Rolling your own devices? Nah, definitely more secure than your average IoT garbage, for a couple reasons:
it won't have any known exploits that will make it easy for drive-by takeovers by botnets (like scanning the internet knowing that every Samsung smart fridge running on port 42069 has a default password of "1234" - you take over 10000s of devices like that. It's not worth most hackers' time to try to break into "crime's 1337 IoT speaker" cause they'll only get one machine out of it, rather than getting something reproducible that works on tons of them)
you can keep it running on your LAN only, if you host your control server at home, so it won't be directly exposed to the internet - all the requests would go through your computer (or a dedicated raspberry pi or something)
you're not at risk of leaking data to a parent corporation and to the data broker they sell to, or any of the people that touch your data in the interim getting hacked and exposing it
IOT hardware that you don't completely control is stupid.
You can roll your own devices though.
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Rolling your own devices? Nah, definitely more secure than your average IoT garbage, for a couple reasons:
it won't have any known exploits that will make it easy for drive-by takeovers by botnets (like scanning the internet knowing that every Samsung smart fridge running on port 42069 has a default password of "1234" - you take over 10000s of devices like that. It's not worth most hackers' time to try to break into "crime's 1337 IoT speaker" cause they'll only get one machine out of it, rather than getting something reproducible that works on tons of them)
you can keep it running on your LAN only, if you host your control server at home, so it won't be directly exposed to the internet - all the requests would go through your computer (or a dedicated raspberry pi or something)
you're not at risk of leaking data to a parent corporation and to the data broker they sell to, or any of the people that touch your data in the interim getting hacked and exposing it
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