The danger is that these things can be done automated by now. It’s not just governments doing this. It is the private sector, and they sell all of that to the highest bidder. The only way out is either to stop them connecting to the internet or install a free software operating system you control.
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aviationeast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still is in my house. TVs are separate from streaming devices. No remote or speaker has a mic in it. Phones and laptops have mic and video permissions off if not in use.
Do I expect someone is listening? Yes but they are at the nation state level and ain’t willing to risk their tools for less than national level threats.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your router is GPS geotagged and recording/reporting all your audio/video/Facebook/Reddit/etc search activity, so good luck with that.
Even I’m not immune.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Your router is GPS geotagged
Not if you turn the wifi off.
and recording/reporting all your audio/video/Facebook/Reddit/etc search activity
Recording all my VPN activity, maybe. But all it’s going to see is a lot of encrypted traffic to and from my VPN server.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh, when they install your internet router, they register your address and GPS. So go ahead and turn your WiFi off, they still know where you are.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fun question…
What OS am I posting from?
What browser? Where from?
Not saying you can’t sort it out, perhaps you can.
Just curious…
aviationeast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Would love to know how considering I bought the hardware and maintain it. The Geo tag is a county over due to the IP of the ISP which you can only relocate it with a VPN.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My router is Opnscence & pihole VMs running on a proxmox host with unbound/DHCP, VLAN segmentation and DHCP snooping on managed switches . YMMV
DNS resolution, split DHCP/DNS roles, and segmented services FTW.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
FYI for those who just bought the newest AppleTV gen4, it has 3 built-in microphones