[libreplanet-discuss] free/secure IoT device shopping

[Daniel Pocock]

There are more and more IoT devices, such as webcams, light bulbs, home
automation controls and sensors and such things appearing.

Is anybody keeping a shortlist of those that are suitable for use in an
environment where freedom and security requirement are not laughed at?

There are four disturbing trends in this space:

- no source code

- proprietary protocols

- doing everything through a cloud server

- crowdfunding the devices, which implies some community involvement,
but only making a token effort to release the code or API and only for
the first few months

Even where source code is available, such as the Foobot[1], it appears
hard-coded (without[2] HTTPS!) to submit data to their own cloud server
and the developer API involves polling the cloud server rather than the
actual device.

Regards,

Daniel


1. https://github.com/airboxlab
2.
https://github.com/airboxlab/Firmware/blob/master/User_firmware/post.c#L156