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Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Comcast is promoting WiFi-based motion detection as a part of its new Xfinity Shield home protection platform, allowing routers and wireless devices to detect people moving through a home without cameras or motion sensors. [...]

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[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago
  1. Get a wifi router and install OpenWRT on it
  2. Put your xfinity router at http://10.0.0.1/ into bridge mode plug in your OpenWRT
  3. Let xfinity fuck itself, you just get a data pipe not spying
[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago

You can also buy your own modem to further reduce the dependence on xfinity.

Someone correct me if Arris has been up to shady shit over the past 6 years

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 55 minutes ago

Any modem needs the latest DOCSIS which is ostensibly a standard but in practice is a big opaque proprietary blob afacit more or less shared among telecoms that adhere to the "standard". Using an older DOCSIS or one without the Comcast's latest-greatest enhancements (hence the quotes around "standard") will absolutely sacrifice line quality.

Moreover Comcast gives you their latest-best modem for negotiation with their upstream WAN and replaces it when it ages out or gets recalled. With bridge mode enabled, it's as close to a dumb pipe as you're going to get without sacrificing quality.

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