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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)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] Olap 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Until a robot can hang up my washing, my machine is staying off any networks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When it can you should still setup a private network just for them to communicate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yep, one for private use, one for this kind of machines and one for guests. But still, in theory it could be sending sensitive data regardless of network setup.