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People are so paronoid these days. Our Internet of Things ganging up to control us!
by peter303 11y ago
People are so paronoid these days.
Our Internet of Things ganging up to control us!
- GhotiFish 11y agonormally i'd say that it's not really paranoid if they're really out to get you... but the attack vector described here. It requires too many devices actively compromised for any usable data to be gleaned. Manufacturers are somewhat sensitive to users demanding to control their devices peripherals. Microphones, webcams, cameras, speakers. It's not perfect, but there's enough moving parts here to make this kind of tracking seem bonkers. For it to work, the person they have target will have blindly agreed to so many things that they have all the information they want on them anyway.
- nightpool 11y ago"blindly agreed to so many things" you mean one permission prompt, on one app they may have downloaded years ago? everything else is just the advertisers including high-frequency beacons in their ad spots—it doesn't require any knowledge or cooperation of any of the intermediary steps.