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c/pulse_of_truth · by lemmydev2@infosec.pub · 2d

Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/comcast-turns-your-xfinity-wifi-into-a-home-motion-detector/

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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9 Comments

Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2d

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

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 10 pts · 2d (5 replies)
  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 · 6 pts · 2d (2 replies)

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 · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

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.

cmbabul@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2d

I would much rather make that sacrifice than trust Comcast everyday of the week. Not disputing you at all but I don’t trust a thing about that company an never will

Edit: and I should add, I haven’t personally noticed any difference in quality

albbi@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

I was just considering this to make pihole installation a bit cleaner. Any good wifi routers to try and get?

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 4 pts · 2d

I use ASUS RT-AX3000. Been solid.

And yes, makes PiHole very simple. In part because so many guides assume you are running WRTG 😎

0ndead@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 2d

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.

CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

I saw this one coming