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I guess wearing a tin foil hat might be useful too

slimsag 4y ago
Really putting the router in an aluminum enclosure/Faraday cage if you can is the only way to prevent this. Then just use the lan ports on the device, but also make sure the LAN cables are shielded because it could be using them as antennas given how compromised wifi router firmwares usually are.
- LarryMullins 4y ago
  You have to shield your home from your neighbor's emitters too. And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house.
  - rl3 4y ago
    >... And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house. Nothing a kind note and an order of small-batch artisan donuts can't solve.
  - fnordpiglet 4y ago
    And space lasers.
  - wizeman 4y ago
    > You have to shield your home from your neighbor's emitters too. And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house. That's what tin foil houses are for, obviously.
    - IIsi50MHz 4y ago
      And for saving them from raging wildfires. (Seriously! Wrapping a structure completely in foil can save it, even when that structure is in a forest with no clearing arund it. I guess it's like baking a potato in hot coals.)
  - krashidov 4y ago
    What do I do about my thermal signature though?
    - artificialLimbs 4y ago
      Wim Hoff method. ;)
    - LarryMullins 4y ago
      Cover yourself in mud from a river bank.
- PaulWaldman 4y ago
  >Then just use the lan ports on the device, but also make sure the LAN cables are shielded because it could be using them as antennas given how compromised wifi router firmwares usually are. Those shielded Ethernet cables better be properly grounded.
- wkat4242 4y ago
  In the past I've opened up my provider-supplied cable modem and removed the wifi card which was luckily modular. This was a really retarded ISP (UPC Ireland) that constantly (like bi-weekly) reset my modem to its factory settings including a way-too-simple wifi password of 8 uppercase characters excluding the I, L and O for number confusion reasons. The entropy was so low that I could crack so my neighbor's passwords in half a day. Basically they were backdooring my entire network. I emailed them but of course nothing happened. Eventually someone even reversed the algorithm they used (based on the SSID of course....) and published a generator which they reacted to by only sightly tweaking the algorithm which of course got reversed again. They also disabled other features that could alleviate this like bridge mode. It was such a terrible company with extreme contempt for their customers but sadly the only fast one I could get in that backwater town. But anyway removing the wifi module fixed that huge backdoor at least. I kept all the parts to put it back, but when I quit the service the modem was deprecated and they told me to throw it out. Later they got taken over by virgin media, not sure if they're still as bad because I left the country.
ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
> * * * Why do you post this? It doesn't add to anything.
eric__cartman 4y ago
I prefer to wear a tin foil suit thank you.
- amelius 4y ago
  You can also get creative with a metallic fishnet fabric.
- shortstuffsushi 4y ago
  I know this is a joke, but wouldn't that still leave a you sized hole?
fnordpiglet 4y ago
Come on that’s just plain silly, they’ll just see you dancing around naked in your hat. It’s not like Wi-Fi routers can see inside your brain, as the article clearly says. No one on HN ever reads the article before commenting any more! The hat only works against the microwave oven mind control. Sheesh.
- salawat 4y ago
  No, that's the magnetite paint for the microwave that does that. Tin foil is for the Nostradamus brain rays from Uranus.

Really putting the router in an aluminum enclosure/Faraday cage if you can is the only way to prevent this. Then just use the lan ports on the device, but also make sure the LAN cables are shielded because it could be using them as antennas given how compromised wifi router firmwares usually are.

LarryMullins 4y ago
You have to shield your home from your neighbor's emitters too. And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house.
- rl3 4y ago
  >... And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house. Nothing a kind note and an order of small-batch artisan donuts can't solve.
- fnordpiglet 4y ago
  And space lasers.
- wizeman 4y ago
  > You have to shield your home from your neighbor's emitters too. And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house. That's what tin foil houses are for, obviously.
  - IIsi50MHz 4y ago
    And for saving them from raging wildfires. (Seriously! Wrapping a structure completely in foil can save it, even when that structure is in a forest with no clearing arund it. I guess it's like baking a potato in hot coals.)
- krashidov 4y ago
  What do I do about my thermal signature though?
  - artificialLimbs 4y ago
    Wim Hoff method. ;)
  - LarryMullins 4y ago
    Cover yourself in mud from a river bank.
PaulWaldman 4y ago
>Then just use the lan ports on the device, but also make sure the LAN cables are shielded because it could be using them as antennas given how compromised wifi router firmwares usually are. Those shielded Ethernet cables better be properly grounded.
wkat4242 4y ago
In the past I've opened up my provider-supplied cable modem and removed the wifi card which was luckily modular. This was a really retarded ISP (UPC Ireland) that constantly (like bi-weekly) reset my modem to its factory settings including a way-too-simple wifi password of 8 uppercase characters excluding the I, L and O for number confusion reasons. The entropy was so low that I could crack so my neighbor's passwords in half a day. Basically they were backdooring my entire network. I emailed them but of course nothing happened. Eventually someone even reversed the algorithm they used (based on the SSID of course....) and published a generator which they reacted to by only sightly tweaking the algorithm which of course got reversed again. They also disabled other features that could alleviate this like bridge mode. It was such a terrible company with extreme contempt for their customers but sadly the only fast one I could get in that backwater town. But anyway removing the wifi module fixed that huge backdoor at least. I kept all the parts to put it back, but when I quit the service the modem was deprecated and they told me to throw it out. Later they got taken over by virgin media, not sure if they're still as bad because I left the country.

ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago

> * * * Why do you post this? It doesn't add to anything.

eric__cartman 4y ago

I prefer to wear a tin foil suit thank you.

amelius 4y ago
You can also get creative with a metallic fishnet fabric.
shortstuffsushi 4y ago
I know this is a joke, but wouldn't that still leave a you sized hole?

fnordpiglet 4y ago

Come on that’s just plain silly, they’ll just see you dancing around naked in your hat. It’s not like Wi-Fi routers can see inside your brain, as the article clearly says. No one on HN ever reads the article before commenting any more! The hat only works against the microwave oven mind control. Sheesh.

salawat 4y ago
No, that's the magnetite paint for the microwave that does that. Tin foil is for the Nostradamus brain rays from Uranus.