I have this old TP-Link smart lightbulb, it’s the only thing that’s IoT and on WiFi in my house.

Looking through pfBlocker logs for fun, and noticed it’s been trying to connect to the Tor network.

Oh! Also, it’s been uploading and downloading 100+ MB of data a day.

Schwim Dandy
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I hope you update the post with any info you find.

@errorlab@lemm.ee
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Will do. It’s part of a long list.

Don’t know my ADHD will hyper focus on it tho haha

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