Hacker News: ttyttyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ttyttyHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:57:58 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ttytty in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"]]>You can (and should) just segregate your network to have separate paths for IoT/"smart devices" and normal personal/family devices. Makes it all worry free and transparently observable.

I have my IoT on a separate VLAN and I can observe communications for any given device at any given time.. this seems like a much saner solution than outright not buying any IoT devices, though that is also a respectable decision!

]]>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:40:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000263ttyttyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000263https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000263<![CDATA[New comment by ttytty in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"]]>It's so important to have a dedicated VLAN (or 2.4g SSID) for IoT devices and block access to your regular VLAN/SSID or enforce some more granular rules on what devices can communicate with each other.

Most non-ancient routers/gateways support this. There are way too many IoT devices running code that's _worse_ than what older LLMs produce.

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