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Norton Announces Core, a Smart Router To Protect Domestic IoT Devices (cnet.com)
fiannaFailMan writes: Norton has announced the launch of a smart router designed to protect connected home devices from intrusions. The Symantec-owned company says the device aims to keep safe up to 20 devices connected to it, including Windows computers, Macs, phones, tablets or any internet-of-things devices, in real time. Norton Core, shaped a little like a geodesic dome, can isolate an infected device from the rest of your network to prevent the spread of any malware. Some of the technical specifications include a dual-core 1.7GHz processor, 1MB of system memory and 4GB of flash memory, and the latest 4x4 AC2600 Wi-Fi standard, with a top speed on the 5GHz band of 1.73 megabits per second and up to 800Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. It also features four Gigabit LAN ports and can cover between 3,000 and 5,000 square feet.
So I guess it's acceptable for this to let practically everything by while slowing down the network to a crawl?
1) Install Norton security router.
2) Discover that your electricity bill is now $3000 per month and every device that's connected to it runs verrrrryyy slowwwwly.
3) Attempt to remove it from your home, and find that no matter how many times you do so, bits of it are still left under your couch, inside the walls, glued to the ceiling...
4) Realize that removing it from your home properly requires complete demolition and ground-up rebuilding.
No thanks.
The Norton Core comes in titanium gold and granite gray.
I hate marketing people.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
You're gonna be fucked when your house becomes sentient.
You forgot the wife's Sybian.
Serious question......what benefit do you get from a dishwasher being attached to the internet?
Access to the Dish network?