RYRychard·Dec 5, 2020
After some searching I found this[0], but I'm curious why they don't surface any of this directly on the webthings.io website itself.
[0]: https://github.com/WebThingsIO/wiki/wiki/Supported-Hardware
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| May 2019 | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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5 sources>It allows you to create a public endpoint as a subdomain of mozilla-iot.org for easy off site access (https://github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Gateway-Remote-Acce...) which would allow some tracking I assume, but in general I have noticed no hidden data collection as your comment implies.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. It's not about keylogging your passwords or getting into your bank accounts. It's about the subtle metadata they'll be able to skim to start fingerprinting you for advertising profiles, and integrating into learning models. It just disgusts me that this has become the defacto behavior for every tech company now rather than "we want nothing to do with any of your analytics". Data is the new oil times 10, and this is Mozilla doing some exploration.
In Mozilla WebThingsCheck the "Arduino" tabs on the WebThings Framework homepage [0]. See also the Supported Hardware list [1], which includes ESP8266, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi (among many others).
[0] https://iot.mozilla.org/framework/
[1] https://github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Supported-Hardware
In Mozilla WebThingsHere is the maintained list of supported hardware:
https://github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Supported-Hardware
In Mozilla WebThingsHow is Mozilla gathering personal data from people using WebThings? When I tried WebThings Gateway a few months back, it did not seem to collect/send personal data off site. It allows you to create a public endpoint as a subdomain of mozilla-iot.org for easy off site access (https://github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Gateway-Remote-Acce...) which would allow some tracking I assume, but in general I have noticed no hidden data collection as your comment implies.
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