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I had a conspiracy theorist tell me one time this is why they removed all the lead paint. It never quite made sense that kids were actually eating lead chips. I know lead is bad for you, maybe a coincidence.
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And also how many people are currently in the house, right at this moment. Maybe even which rooms of the house those people are in.
WiFi can also be used to detect heartrate and breathing, which can leak additional ad-targeting information related to activity, arousal, or agitation. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/7/2111
Does wrapping their modem in foil work at defeating this thing in any meaningful way? I have my own router.
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So use their router, but connect your own to it. Then turn off the WiFi in their equipment
I'm doing the first bit, but I can't turn off the wifi -- only stop broadcasting my "personal" network. And actually, as I went in to make sure that was the case, I saw that broadcasting of my personal network had been forcibly turned back on. Lovely!
Something like a belly dance belt around the router could also work.
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RF-blocking paint exists.
And contrary to popular belief, neither it nor a faraday cage blocks RF. They attenuate it, to varying degrees.
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The solution here shouldn't be technical; it should be legal. If we rely on the technical path, Comcast can achieve the same by how many active IPv6 addresses are in use. Even if you aren't using your phone, the device is going to be constantly pinging services like email, and your ISP can use that to piece together how many people are at home. If we rely on legal protection, then not only Comcast, but all ISPs will…
> The solution here shouldn't be technical; it should be legal. The parent commenter was highlighting that law enforcement can compel them to provide the data. The customer has to opt-in to WiFi motion sensing to have the data tracked. If you see something appear in an app, you should assume law enforcement can compel the company to provide that data. It's not really a surprise. > If we rely on legal protection, then…
Your honor, they clearly opted in to us spying on absolutely everything they do or think.
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The solution here shouldn't be technical; it should be legal. If we rely on the technical path, Comcast can achieve the same by how many active IPv6 addresses are in use. Even if you aren't using your phone, the device is going to be constantly pinging services like email, and your ISP can use that to piece together how many people are at home. If we rely on legal protection, then not only Comcast, but all ISPs will…
> The solution here shouldn't be technical; it should be legal. I disagree. Solutions should be technical whenever possible, because in practice, laws tend to be abused and/or not enforced. Laws also need resources and cooperation to be enforced, and some laws are hard to enforce without creating backdoors or compromising other rights. "ISPs will be prohibited from spying on their customers" doesn't mean ISPs won't s…