Hidden Radios in Home Devices

[gf beranek]

It's technical, and it's lengthy, but this smart fellow spills the beans on how High-tech is watching our every move.

Well worth listening to all the way to the end.


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[treesmith]

Why am I not surprised?

 

[gf beranek]

Even your light bulbs are helping to spy on you. Very interesting about the mesh networks.

 

[treesmith]

I find it inexcusable that they would go to the trouble to spy on honest folks....while they won't bother to do anything about criminals that they are aware of.

 

[lxskllr]

IOT is a sham. Even assuming best intentions of the manufacturers, your device that costs tens of dollars has about as much chance of getting firmware updates for security as I do of sprouting wings. It's a huge security risk that provides trivial convenience, and most features could be done yourself using your own software/hardware. My house is completely dumb, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

 

[Mick!]

Oh Gerry!
You really should try not to swallow everything you see on the net.

 

[lxskllr]

That video was pretty legit. The framing was a little eyerolling, but not incorrect. Yea, it's got radios, and yea, they're hidden, but that's how it works. All those gadgets and gizmos have to communicate to work, and they do that via radio. There really isn't any other way to do it aside from hardwiring everything.

 

[Mrs.B]

Oh Gerry!
You really should try not to swallow everything you see on the net.

I agree. He needs something to do.

 

[gf beranek]

Hey! I swear it's a frigging conspiracy!

 

[pantheraba]

Sorry...Mammy says, "I has spoken."

 

[Mrs.B]

About those spying light bulbs......The one's with the life time guarantee that keep blowing out....I am sure they are dying of boredom.

 

[Bermy]

spit my coffee, that was funny!!

 

[Batla]

That video was pretty legit. The framing was a little eyerolling, but not incorrect. Yea, it's got radios, and yea, they're hidden, but that's how it works. All those gadgets and gizmos have to communicate to work, and they do that via radio. There really isn't any other way to do it aside from hardwiring everything.

There is another alternative: PLC (Power Line Carrier). No radio and the wires are already in the house. Another techno is LiFi which basically uses modulation of LED's (visible or IR). This techno has at least the interest of being easily 'containable' in a room.

 

[Bart]

If you were concerned about an Alexa or similar I'd get it and be on board. Those devices are designed to constantly listen, interpret and phone home about it. Never have one in my house. I dislike the desktop voice activated assistants in modern OS's as well.

I like to limit "them" to ip traffic capture and keystrokes.