You guys don't run your ap's behind a firewall you control? I stopped using consumer gear about 5 years ago because there's no way to grantee you control it. Could someone sitting in a van outside the house and having some other receiver which is capable of passively doing the same thing just from the signals emitted by your hardware is more clever imo. They could also sit outside with a military grade thermal scope and mostly accomplish the same thing though.
What black magic are you talking about?
This kind of thing is run at the kernel level, built into the physical CPU as a backdoor by our faggot friends at the NSA.
Well its still going to have to get on a channel to communicate back to their mother ship and there are tools for untangling wifi traffic and you'll see it come across the logs in your firewall if they try to use wan to coms. By consumer gear i mean i switched to using old enterprise hardware for most of my network. juniper managed switches and run a custom built firewall behind the fiber ont. My wifi i use enterprise AP's for.
Ok.
Do your cell phone next, because it's doing the same shit. And if you manage to lock yours down, anyone who visits your house with their cell phone will still capture the snapshot.
See how it never ends?
That is how it is being sold. How it is actually going to work is you are going to be able to visualize what is going on on the other side of the gyproc between you and your neighbour.
It has existed for a dozen years in experimental form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGZzNZnYIHo
We should look at investing in companies that start making faraday cages to be embedded into gyproc slabs, wallpaper and self adhesives I guess.
What if they get even just a little bit smart about it? Instead of just streaming data to a cia.gov server they could rent some Amazon cloud space and cache the data for some time and wait for you to connect to Amazon's cloud service for some other reason. When you make the connection for other services they could just piggyback their payload on those packets and you'd be none the wiser. You wouldn't even be able to see it if you were sitting there with wireshark watching for it.
Whats your take on pfSense?
There were some court documents leaked a while ago that outlined how many Feds (a lot) had been caught masturbating outside people's houses, with some kind of imaging technology that basically enabled enough fidelity that they all couldn't stop wanking in their vans.
That was their remote panty sniffing technology.
Can you tell me more about this, fren?
Implying they like panties and not racing-striped whitey-tighties.
Have you inspected your firewall's hardware for malicious code? Sure, you can build your own pfsense machine or whatever, but what's guaranteeing that there's not a WIFI chip on that board using this tech even without you activating the chip?
I mean nothing really but theoretically if you get or have a good USB Software defined radio you would be able to detect any anomalous radio transmissions getting emitted from devices that shouldn't be emitting them.
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