trashaccountxxx

Re:Privacy concerns over “Circle with Disney” appliance on Saturday March 04, 2017 @10:23AM (#13791227)

first, many people have this tight appartment situation. 10 ft is not reasonable, and i really wonder how you can accurately measure that you're 10 ft away from the router, and not a repeater ; which brings me to the 2nd point : yes you can connect to a coffeeshop : not all of them are equiped with open networks + sign-in pages, because those require to pay for it and not all shops can afford that. Last, you can still connect to your work place wifi, can't you? More personally, assuming you share your life with someone, how would you react if you were to discover such a device in your home?

...and NO, monitoring your kids isn't the answer since they can watch porn from anywhere else than your monitored home. I guess something like education should be better than repression?

Privacy concerns over “Circle with Disney” appliance

Posted by trashaccountxxx on Saturday March 04, 2017 @06:30AM
from the self-post dept.

Source: https://meetcircle.com/circle/tech-specs/I work in a small iot company. We usually do concurrency analysis. Yesterday we received Disney's Circle box. It's a device you connect to your wifi and lists all the devices in your network ; then you can monitor those devices, deny them access to websites and even access their browsing history.While these features aren't new, the fact that it's...

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