> recommending that users choose familiar brands when purchasing new products.
Good luck with that. I have a friend that only buys no-name AliExpress specials, boasts about how cheap they are, and then bitches to me about all the problems he has with them.
That said, they do make a lot of interesting boards over there, for various purposes. There are a lot of interesting NUC variants, NAS motherboards and Pi-like cards.
Any good way to detect if their firmware has been backdoored once you got one in your hands?
> That said, they do make a lot of interesting boards over there, for various purposes. There are a lot of interesting NUC variants, NAS motherboards and Pi-like cards.
This. I recall I bought an Orange Pi Zero 512MB out of AliExpress for about $5. Great deal, but I would definitely not trust it to do anything with private info though.
If you’re concerned just stick in on a VLAN and restrict its access to whatever suits you. I have some crappy home automation stuff I restrict and only allow my devices to communicate with them, no outside access allowed.
If you’re concerned just stick in on a VLAN and restrict its access to whatever suits you. I have some crappy home automation stuff I restrict and only allow my devices to communicate with them, not outside access allowed.
It depends on who you order to, on Amazon. Delivery is reasonably fast (2 to 5 days around here) and the chance of getting a knockoff, whilst higher than it used to be, is still less than 100%. It’s far from perfect, but saying that it’s on par with Wish or AliExpress is not accurate at all. So yes, Amazon is in fact better.
Good luck with that. I have a friend that only buys no-name AliExpress specials, boasts about how cheap they are, and then bitches to me about all the problems he has with them.