Make no mistake, this is 100% going to be Comcast’s alternative to more expensive surveillance options a la Flock, or workplace presence sensor arrays.
Regardless of the basic privacy invasion that we all know Comcast is doing. Buy your own cable modem and router. Comcast charges you to use theirs, so they pay for themselves in a couple years.
It’s always been a ripoff from the start. The modem / router is far cheaper than whatever they charge you to rent it over a year. Additionally they were broadcasting public wifi hotspots from your rented modem for a while (probably still are) and now this. Having said that, walk into any random friend’s house, and what will you see? A big stupid rented Comcast modem.
Yep it will get used by advertisers to know how many times you get up while watching netflix, or by police to know when to conduct a raid.
The internet is increasingly a weapon
The Dark Knight surveillance tech is real life now. We’re screwed.
I remember the scientific article of this technology as a proof of concept. Honestly it didn’t take an ISP very long to
weaponize itoffer it as a service.If anyone didn’t already know, this isn’t anything new. It’s basically just WiGLE but not public level, and is using that to track devices coming and going.
You don’t need Xfinity WiFi to do this. Everything you have with a BT or WiFi antenna is already out there and everyone can see it. It’s logged and recorded. Can literally see my neighbour’s got two iPhones moving around right now and I didn’t even get out of bed. Oh, they also have a JBL Encore Essential… That explains something that happened last week.
Nope: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wi-fi-routers-used-to-detect-human-locations-poses-within-a-room
It’s gotten even more capable where it can basically act as a presence sensor through walls as well. It’s not simple device tracking at all.
That was not what you should’ve gotten from my point.
But, yes. That is also obviously correct.
Edit: Granted, my bad for really dumbing down the wider scope of it. I re-read the comment now seeing why, when regarding the specifics of signal disruptions of a network for identifying—which is a part of IDing and tracking secondary to the actual top layer identifying—is a thing. Thought that went without saying…
Am learning this is somehow surprisingly new to people. Which is honestly the bigger concern.
