You won't believe how UNSAFE your home router is!

11/02/22 • 21 min

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Your router is the gateway between your devices and the internet at large. If it’s compromised, it’s like leaving the front door to your home network wide open, allowing malicious actors to enter. Unfortunately the routers most of us use are VERY insecure, with all kinds of known vulnerabilities.
In this video we go over how to give your hardware and software a major overhaul, including a step-by-step tutorial for how to use pfSense on a Protectli firewall vault.
00:00 Intro
01:07 What’s in a “Router”?
03:30 Security Dangers
06:06 Upgrading with Protectli
06:43 Protectli Components Explained
07:50 Installation Tutorial
09:39 Configuring pfSense Settings
13:45 Power Cycling Tip
14:12 How Protectli Fits into Your Network Setup
15:57 Add WiFi Capabilities
16:36 How to Enable AP Mode
18:34 Setup Diagram
20:07 Conclusion
With pfSense and the Protectli vault, you can tweak your settings to incredibly granular levels. That's what we'll cover in future videos: how to configuring firewalls to block malicious traffic coming in AND telemetry going out, and how to set up a whole network VPN.
Brought to you by NBTV members: Lee Rennie, Reuben Yap, Sam Ettaro, Will Sandoval, and Naomi Brockwell.
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The MOST and LEAST Private Home Cameras

https://youtu.be/92I5JwlluK4
https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Most-PRIVATE-Home-Cameras:5
Adding a security system to your home might not be a bad idea. But what kind of security system? And are there any that are truly secure and privacy-preserving?
We dive into a bunch of popular home security cameras, and how they they compare in terms of privacy.
00:00 Intro
00:54 Terms to Know
02:27 ADT
04:23 Ring
05:28 Nest
05:59 Eufy
09:18 Reolink
10:30 Amcrest
10:56 Others
11:21 Synology
13:52 Apple HomeKit
14:45 Eufy (revisited)
15:46 Homebridge and OpenHAB
16:07 Trade-Offs
18:06 Outro
Spoiler alert, privacy doesn’t seem to be a focus of home security companies. It's also surprisingly difficult to find information about how private and secure each system is. But hopefully there are some solutions here that fit your threat model, and if not, we'll dive into a more complicated but private setup in an upcoming video!
Take a look at our previous deep-dive into Ring cameras:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnMDb75vmks
https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Ring-Cameras:f
Brought to you by NBTV members: Lee Rennie, Chris Karabats, Faith Braverman, Will Sandoval, Sam Ettaro, and Naomi Brockwell.
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The Dark side of VPNs

https://youtu.be/8MHBMdTBlok
https://open.lbry.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/vpn-scandals:5
It turns out that an overwhelming number of VPNs are actively harvesting and selling your data, capturing passwords / credentials / movements from your web activities, and doing all sorts of awful things.
VPNs can be super useful: to help you watch the Netflix catalogue of another country, avoid government surveillance and censorship under oppressive regimes, hide your IP address from websites, stay safe on public wifi, and stop your ISP from spying on your internet activities.
But it REALLY depends on which VPN you’re using.
In this video we’re going to explore which VPN companies own which review sites, which VPN permissions demand far too much access to your machine, which code has appalling security, and the giant red flags in a lot of this code that scream data collection.
00:00 Private Private Super Secret Secure VPN!
00:42 Intro
02:33 What VPNs Do
04:17 The Risk of Free VPN Services
05:30 1clickVPN
07:15 FreeVPN
08:44 ZenMate
10:03 AZA VPN and HULA VPN
11:29 NordVPN and ExpressVPN
14:01 Kape Technologies
15:23 Ziff Davis and White Labeling
16:42 Chinese Data Collection
18:04 Affiliate Sponsorships
18:57 Final Tips
19:21 Support NBTV/Outro
When you’re choosing a VPN or other tools for your privacy arsenal, it’s a good idea to do your own research and see what the security experts are saying. There’s some great information out there, but you do need to learn how to look for it.
Special Thanks to Jonathan Tomek for sharing his awesome research with us for this video!
More details in Consumer Reports:
https://digital-lab-wp.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/VPN-White-Paper.pdf
Brought to you by NBTV members: Lee Rennie, Reuben Yap, Sam Ettaro, Will Sandoval, and Naomi Brockwell.
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