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The only wires left to cut are the power lines. Are you proposing pre-electricity housing as the only alternative to in-home surveillance? Maybe we should just
by pacala 7y ago
The only wires left to cut are the power lines. Are you proposing pre-electricity housing as the only alternative to in-home surveillance? Maybe we should just get rid of the creeps by legal means, fat adtech paychecks be damned.
- technofiend 7y agoNo I'm suggesting opening the case of your hypothetical 5g TV and clipping the antenna wire. Commercial displays with no smart features and projectors can be purchased right off Amazon. There are still options: we haven't quite yet made it to 1984's mandatory TVs that watch you. But yeah I'm with you that's it's excessive and needs regulation.
- pacala 7y agoI wish it were that easy. Nowadays we build systems-on-chip. Hard to cut specific parts out of the picture. But perhaps the antenna is still off-chip. https://www.androidauthority.com/how-it-works-systems-on-a-chip-soc-93587/ https://www.androidauthority.com/how-it-works-systems-on-a-c... > [...] you should have a general picture of what goes inside it: CPU, Memory, GPU, Northbridge, Southbrige, Cellular radios, Other radios [...] > [...] Such is the case with the Snapdragon S4 from Qualcomm, which has an embedded LTE modem on board responsible for 4G LTE connectivity [...]
- jlokier 7y agoThey will use the display panel matrix as an active antenna eventually. (note to self: patent this) Good luck!