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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by giantg2 on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:20PM (#44429982)
They can map your home and motion with traffic patterns?
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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by heavyset_go on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:35PM (#44430317)
The OP was also talking about deducing presence based on connections and traffic patterns, which using your own WiFi AP isn't going to mitigate.
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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by giantg2 on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @06:57AM (#44432598)
I don't think there's any reliable way around that. They can do that with real-time power meter monitoring even if you don't have an internet connection.
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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by sleepybrett on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:50AM (#44435149)
Good luck to them for those of us who have set up a tailscale exit node in our network and use it whenever they are 'roaming'.
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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by heavyset_go on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @05:58PM (#44438350)
They can see the WireGuard traffic coming in and correlate it with traffic out. WG traffic is easily identifiable.
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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion by sleepybrett on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:36PM (#44438927)
I have tons coming in all the time some of it goes out some of it does not.
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