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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.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

That's really odd. For what it's worth though, the company I work for does firmware updates over a Tor hidden service for customer privacy. We don't send any data though (as that would defeat the purpose entirely), just poll for updates then download and install if there are any.