Connecting the Photon to a untrusted network

[rpiswag]

If I connected my Particle Photon to a untrusted wifi network (say the wifi network at defcon) and the computer to cellular network would the Particle Photon be safe? I mention this because many people bring there Particle based projects to hackerspaces.

[ScruffR]

What do you consider safe?

But REST and other cloud communication is still encrypted even without additional WiFi encryption.
UDP/TCPServer/TCPClient communication will on the other hand be unencrypted.

[rpiswag]

If someone was ease dropping between the wifi access point and the Particle Photon what would the be able to get if I was flashing my Photon with new code? Would they be able to modify or read my code?

[ScruffR]

As said, they would only see encrypted packets (or to be more specific unencrypted packet “envelopes” with encrypted payload)

[Moors7]

I could be mistaken, but that question sounds awfully familiar:

Security Of the Spark Cloud

What about the Spark Core, Photon, Electron themselves and not the Spark cloud? Even if the Spark cloud is secure is the devices themselves secure? Is the data sent to the Spark devices secure? Can I capture packets and read plain text information or is the data sent to the Spark devices or is the data encrypted and it it is what encryption is used?

[rpiswag]

Thank you for the clarification!