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 2 points 1 hour ago

Get a wifi router and install OpenWRT on it
Put your xfinity router at http://10.0.0.1/ into bridge mode plug in your OpenWRT
Let xfinity fuck itself, you just get a data pipe not spying

[-] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour 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

[-] 0ndead@infosec.pub 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Time to wrap the modem in foil

EDIT: it takes way more foil than you’d think to block the ssids from being seen. Make sure to get the top and bottom of the device as well.

[-] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

Don't worry, they're monitoring regardless of you using the service.

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I saw this one coming

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