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You're the one that connected an impossible-to-security-update device to the internet. You can do plenty of home automation without it needing to be that way, if you're open to a little more setup being involved in the process.
It's on it's own VLAN from the beginning. Wanted to poke around but never got to it.
I still have it connected, want to use for practice.
I hope you update the post with any info you find.
Will do. It's part of a long list.
Don't know my ADHD will hyper focus on it tho haha
Good on you. I use the poor man's VLAN--guest Wi-Fi network to isolate my IoT devices.
I have no idea of all the details, but in legal terms this is called "res ipsa loquitur" -- in this case, the fact that it clearly seems compromised is pretty solid evidence that it wasn't immune to compromise.
Expected since TP-Link stopped updating them shortly after release.