[tennysont]

Based on the :/ emoticon, I now understand that you were asking this question for yourself. In that case, I will express anger at the article. I believe that it was vague and leaned into fear mongering. This explains the vagueness of your question (emphasis mind):

> I know this may seem trivial for many here but how can regular people easily check and debug their network for stuff like this?

"Stuff like this" is very vague.

- If there is a device on your network that is occasionally sending requests to the internet, then it generally isn't hurting you. That's why security is weak here, because the person buying the device is not harmed.

- If you're worried about the device sniffing your local network, then "normal people" are typically safe. Computers that you use are typically safe from malicious devices on the network, and you're in no more danger than working at a coffee shop, hotel, or university network.

- If you're knowledgeable enough to be a danger to yourself, and need the local network to be safe to protect yourself, then there is definitely a longer conversation to be had.

Responding point by point (before I realized that you were asking for yourself, and not the average person):

> Regular people download shit all the time though?

This is fair, though on macOS, most people download apps from the App Store (macOS makes it difficult to run apps downloaded from the internet and not signed by a registered developer).

> Especially now with GPT, everyone is a programmer pasting code into command line.

I am trying to reference a group of "regular people" who definitely do not fit this description---something like "the average citizen in the developed world". My parents definitely are not writing code with AI and pasting it into the command line. Although this was not crystal clear in this comment chain.

> And how many people have IoT devices that they have to connect to WiFi? That’s total blind trust.

My point was these devices do not endanger things that regular people care about. Their computers are still just as secure as when they visit a coffee shop or connect to their university wifi.

> Every time I ask this question nobody is able to give me a solid answer :/

for stuff like this?