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Yeah, synthetic monitoring is totally surveillance.

by 0x0000000 3y ago

tptacek 3y ago
To be fair: RUM is a pretty shady market. (I don't know anything about this particular company.)
- viraptor 3y ago
  RUM, as in getting samples of timing for the resources requested from your site? What's shady about that? (Or is there some other RUM concept?)
firebirdn99 3y ago
Another thing, is that viral video recently, where AI was able to give an explanation of the dream, the person said the sonar in Wifi routers can be transformed into showing positions of humans in buildings. Not that recent, actually found an article from Jan this year - https://boingboing.net/2023/01/19/new-study-shows-how-to-use-wifi-signals-like-sonar-to-spy-on-people.html https://boingboing.net/2023/01/19/new-study-shows-how-to-use... Something we should keep in mind.
igetspam 3y ago
What do you mean, they clearly spell out how little they collect, in their privacy policy: > The amount of personally identifiable information stored by SamKnows is limited to; name, email, and address. All metadata and personally identifiable information is both encrypted at rest and in transit on SamKnows servers. It is never stored or transmitted to or from the test agent See? Nothing to worry about, just your name, email and address. Very little that could actually pinpoint who you are or where you are. Ref: https://samknows.com/blog/testing-principles https://samknows.com/blog/testing-principles
- oddeyed 3y ago
  That is only for people who volunteer to receive our custom hardware and we need the name and address to ship them the unit. For most units we have no name, address or any PII whatsoever.
  - igetspam 3y ago
    Thank you for the clarification. The descriptions I'm seeing imply that your telemetry code is embedded in network enabled devices. It's good to know that this data collection only applies to your whitebox.
    - oddeyed 3y ago
      I can understand your concern. Thankfully we have no way of accessing any PII from within an embedded context - all the agent knows is its own MAC/IP addresses etc.

Yeah, synthetic monitoring is totally surveillance.

tptacek 3y ago

To be fair: RUM is a pretty shady market. (I don't know anything about this particular company.)

viraptor 3y ago
RUM, as in getting samples of timing for the resources requested from your site? What's shady about that? (Or is there some other RUM concept?)

firebirdn99 3y ago

Another thing, is that viral video recently, where AI was able to give an explanation of the dream, the person said the sonar in Wifi routers can be transformed into showing positions of humans in buildings. Not that recent, actually found an article from Jan this year - https://boingboing.net/2023/01/19/new-study-shows-how-to-use-wifi-signals-like-sonar-to-spy-on-people.html https://boingboing.net/2023/01/19/new-study-shows-how-to-use... Something we should keep in mind.

igetspam 3y ago

What do you mean, they clearly spell out how little they collect, in their privacy policy: > The amount of personally identifiable information stored by SamKnows is limited to; name, email, and address. All metadata and personally identifiable information is both encrypted at rest and in transit on SamKnows servers. It is never stored or transmitted to or from the test agent See? Nothing to worry about, just your name, email and address. Very little that could actually pinpoint who you are or where you are. Ref: https://samknows.com/blog/testing-principles https://samknows.com/blog/testing-principles

oddeyed 3y ago
That is only for people who volunteer to receive our custom hardware and we need the name and address to ship them the unit. For most units we have no name, address or any PII whatsoever.
- igetspam 3y ago
  Thank you for the clarification. The descriptions I'm seeing imply that your telemetry code is embedded in network enabled devices. It's good to know that this data collection only applies to your whitebox.
  - oddeyed 3y ago
    I can understand your concern. Thankfully we have no way of accessing any PII from within an embedded context - all the agent knows is its own MAC/IP addresses etc.