can effectively use it as a VPN to access your private network
I’m dumb. I still don’t know what that means. When they can access your network, does that mean they can make copies from your printer or does that mean they can access your hard drives?
If you have your HDD shared with local network devices without a password, then yes they can access those HDDs. Not sure about printers, but if the printer is not locked down some how, they can potentially access it (e.g. print or scan documents that are in the scanner), albeit I haven’t used a printer at home in decades so I may be wrong.
It’s not a good thing to have randoms (even a nominally legit company) to have open 24/7 access to your local network.
I’m dumb. I still don’t know what that means. When they can access your network, does that mean they can make copies from your printer or does that mean they can access your hard drives?
If you have your HDD shared with local network devices without a password, then yes they can access those HDDs. Not sure about printers, but if the printer is not locked down some how, they can potentially access it (e.g. print or scan documents that are in the scanner), albeit I haven’t used a printer at home in decades so I may be wrong.
It’s not a good thing to have randoms (even a nominally legit company) to have open 24/7 access to your local network.
Thank you for the explanation, so it’s as bad as I thought. How do I know what apps and programs have access to my network?
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