Back in October 2022, ORG exposed Government plans to snoop on UK residents’ smart meters and energy consumption data.
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The Ontario government has had a few initiatives to push smart thermostats and my area just had our water meters upgraded to smart ones. I know nothing about the water meters, but I block the Google telemetry from my Nest Thermostat (unrelated to the gov’t program) via my pi-hole at least. By definition, if you sign on to the Enbridge thermostat initiative you are agreeing to send your usage. Not really sure of the impacts of this article on Canada, but pretty chilling nonetheless!
Google stuff often hard codes 8.8.8.8, so unless you’re forwarding all port 53 to your pihole, it’s probably still getting out. Do the smart thing like I did and spend thousands of dollars on a proxmox host, virtualize opnsense, and tell Google where to stick it.
Corporations: laughs in DoH/DoT
(or even static IP)
I do a black hole for any 8.8.8.8 traffic on my Unifi dream machine, so you don’t need thousands of dollars in equipment. It can be done on Unifi which has cheaper options.
But that’s boring lol