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It's a longstanding, and obviously false, rumor. It would be trivial to prove that these things connect to open wifi networks to phone home, but no one has eve
by coldpie 8d ago
It's a longstanding, and obviously false, rumor. It would be trivial to prove that these things connect to open wifi networks to phone home, but no one has ever proved that they do that, because they don't actually do that. It would be a little harder, but still very easy, to prove that they connect to cell networks, but no one has proved that they do that either, because they don't actually do that either.
Keeping them disconnected from wifi is sufficient.
- mitxela 8d agoYou're all over this thread posting this same thing but you admitted that to you, "trivial" means substantial reverse engineering.
- ssl-3 8d ago"Trivial" to me means looking up the FCC ID of the device and seeing what kinds of RF emissions it is supposed to radiate. Or, still trivial (but more expensive): Point a spectrum analyzer at it and see what kinds of RF emissions it actually radiates. I don't need to open the box to understand what kinds of noises it makes.
- account42 7d agoOr even just realize that if the devices had this capability these companies couldn't resist using it to show you ads. Since these devices don't show up to date ads unless you manually connect them to a network you can be reasonably sure that they don't have a fallback internet connection.
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