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Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit

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Re: Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit

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post #19

always monitor your TCP connections.

Is there an easy way to do this on iOS? I use Little Snitch on my laptop, but haven't ever found an equivalent for mobile devices.

When I last tried about 2 years ago I had to use my MacBook as a proxy for the iPhone. You could intercept the traffic on the Mac via the mentioned softwares.

Re: Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit

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post #19

always monitor your TCP connections.

Is there an easy way to do this on iOS? I use Little Snitch on my laptop, but haven't ever found an equivalent for mobile devices.

Enable Always-On VPN on iOS and monitor traffic at the VPN device.

Re: Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit

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post #20

always monitor your TCP connections.

I recently enabled Little Snitch on my Mac. It has a lot of system rules enabled but I disabled them all just to see what happened. I knew that OS X has a lot of cloud interaction and phones home often... but it's staggering just how often and to how many addresses and protocols this is. I mean every minute or so it's doing something it probably doesn't have to. It makes me wonder how safe VPNs are. I don't think the…

> It makes me wonder how safe VPNs are. I don't think they're safe at all seeing all this side traffic going out concurrently.

How do you mean? If you're worried about traffic outside of your VPN software locally on your machine you can put the VPN client in your router or get a dedicated VPN gateway.

Or are you referring to potential locally sourced personally identifiable data leaking over VPN to be sold by vendors? That one is tougher, other than don't have those services installed or run those OS:es.

Re: Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit

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The prevalence of suing in the US always surprises me. I wonder though: Can Kyle Zak (the plaintiff) be just anybody? Does he need to prove any damage occurred to him as a result, or is the violation of TOS enough?

"Zak is seeking millions of dollars of damages for buyers of headphones and speakers"

who would hypothetically get said millions? This doesn't seem to be a class action.

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