The Smart Home Wi-Fi Trap: Are We All Being Conned by Convenience?

>Mainstream tech advice treats cheap Wi-Fi smart plugs as harmless convenience, totally glossing over how much telemetry leaks out to overseas cloud servers by default. > >Expecting casual users to set up VLANs and firewall drop rules just to stop a £10 light bulb from phoning home is a bit of a joke. > >True privacy means local control without corporate middlemen. > >— >Original content by The Unknown Universe, written by a human and not AI generated!