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Your easiest solution is to just not connect it to your network.
If you want to really lock it out, depending on your router you can use the firewall to drop any packets to and from the device's IP.
For a lot of devices that will leave an unsecured wifi network on that will
I have an old tplink router i connect shit to that i then turn off
I chose the second option after my new fridge got too friendly with my MIL's phone. Nothing against her, but I didn't want to give it the chance to do that with a stranger.
Won't the neighbor's kid just hack into it and flood your kitchen, then?
No, better to disable it physically
That's not how dishwashers work.
Thats what people said about internet connected blenders, until the neighborhood kid hacked into it and used it to burn down their neighbors house
Source? Sounds like an interesting read.
It was some CCC talk, but it wasn't a child and it wasn't a blender. Might have been a Tesla, can't remember
Anyway if a manufacturer is dumb enough to put WiFi in a dishwasher or blender, its not safe to assume that someone with too much time on their hands won't be able to make it flood or catch fire.