I’m just curious, what if I’d use my pi-hole to block all connections from/to China on my home network. I have a good bit of automation in place, but mostly western solutions, yet still I wouldn’t be surprised if they called China. Have any of you tried this kind of experiment? Is it even possible to block? What gone down?

  • Darklumiere@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I block all inbound connections from China and Russia via GeoIP blocking in Opnsense and no one in my household has ever complained. Considering setting it up to blocking outgoing as well, but any Chinese device I’m suspicious of is already isolated from the WAN.

    • Swatieson@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      What’s more suspicious than Alexa or our phones? The "bad guys’ can do jack shit with our data but the “good guys” can fuck us up.

    • psychobobolink@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Well, just blocking incoming connections doesn’t add much value. Besides if you also block already established connections, but then it would be easier saying blocking outgoing traffic.