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> I guess it's the Wacom digitiser broadcasting RF all the time. Great, it has expensive royalties and it betrays the user.
by bergstromm466 6y ago
> I guess it's the Wacom digitiser broadcasting RF all the time.
Great, it has expensive royalties and it betrays the user.
- krastanov 6y agoShort range analog RF signal to detect where the pen is, not something containing digital information. Your toothbrush motor and charger probably has comparable level of RF radiation come out.
- reificator 6y agoThey do, but it should be noted that there have been reports of toothbrushes exfiltrating accelerometer data so toothbrushes are no longer a good example of an innocuous device.
- Loughla 6y agoWhat possible use would a company have for knowing when you pick up your toothbrush? What valuable data can they extract from that?
- justinclift 6y agoMaybe letting health insurance companies know their client(s) aren't brushing their teeth "enough" (by some metric), thereby setting themselves up for increased dental costs? Probably the same thing for people brushing their teeth too much?
- bergstromm466 6y agoAh I misread that, thanks
- reificator 6y ago> Great, it has expensive royalties and it betrays the user. Your cell phone also sends out photons that can be spied on. Worse yet they're multicast so multiple parties can receive them at the same time. Seriously though, this is an absurd concern, and I say that as someone who is very privacy minded if not actually paranoid. I still don't trust that cell phones aren't sending back keywords picked up on the microphone, but I guarantee you that right now no one is listening to your digitizer's rf output, much less that the device itself is somehow "betraying the user" by exfiltrating anything over it.
- bergstromm466 6y agoYeah I mistook rf for something else