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Luckily, most embedded devices lack the smart to attach to two networks at the same time. So you keep it locked into a network where it can only do your bidding, and it won't listen to anyone else. Unless they built in some very crazy and nefarious code and drive around with network enabled cars in the owners neighborhood.
puts on tin foil hat
https://www.wired.com/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
Wait, I don't need a tin foil hat for this... It was national news
At the point it becomes impossible to buy hardware that doesn't have a Wi-Fi antenna in it, I'll get really worried regardless. Tricking a device into connecting to the right wifi network already is so wild, and people shouldn't have to do that. I'm smart enough to. Not everybody is. Not everybody has the money for an extra router.
No need for an extra router. I just put those device into the "has no internet access" group. It is one of those "Parental Control" things. Every device inside the net can see and talk to it, but itself cannot talk to anything outside.
Which is understandable... To me, anyway. Until the router needs to be reset, or something else happens to it.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure if my router hardware actually supports this possibility. I've got a PiHole, but I'm also not the average person I play telephone tech support for.
That's what "configuration backups" are for. You've got some, don't you?
Who, me? I never thought about it before because I like to live dangerously