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[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 hour ago

I CAN'T HEAR YOU!??

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 7 hours ago

10 years ago OP would've been labeled a schizo, now we just accept there's microphones in everything

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago

i hate living in a cyberpunk dystopia

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

It looks way cooler in the movies and video games. We were tricked!

[-] myyass@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You know the irony of this is? My ex-fiances father was labeled as schizophrenic. I mean he was by textbook definition. One day, I would take her to visit him, he says that computers are tracking you. Now, I brushed it off at the time, probably a conspiracy theory right? but I did think about it.

L3 was tracking internet data already, at least, in the early 2000's. A little game of what's connecting to my computer showed me that, but I didn't know what it was at the time. Well now I know, g-sec company has been tracking us from routers for over twenty years; same company after the merger that makes EOTECHs. So the puzzle pieces came together.

I kind of wondered if he really was schizophrenic or medicated to be so? As an a example, tramadol made me have auditory hallucinations that I've never experience on acid or mushrooms (college lol).

[-] yxc999@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

It's sad isn't it?

The walls are listening

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

I will still argue phones listen to us. Don't care what you say, it happens. Act accordingly

[-] eremophila@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Remove the microphone from your phone

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

If you want to know ~~all~~ some of the ways your audio can be spied on.

Benn Jordan on audio spying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEC6PM97IRI

He, surprisingly, did another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ynZ3lMQJc

[-] davetortoise@reddthat.com 15 points 6 hours ago

I'm tempted to try this but I'm not sure how to identify the microphone or whether it would be in my remote or the TV itself. Is there some sort of guide on doing this?

[-] yxc999@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

While it's not always the case, try to look for a 2x4 silver rectangle with a hole in it like the one on my finger. The casing is to isolate it from the nearby radio waves and the hole to let sound through.

[-] sunth1ef@sh.itjust.works 23 points 7 hours ago

While you're at it, disconnect your "smart TV" from the internet!

[-] Luccus@feddit.org 11 points 7 hours ago

Which means disconnecting it's WiFi, because some may connect to open hotspots without asking.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

ISP routers/modems will often have secondary wifi networks that allow access to subscribers. I can absolutely believe these smart devices connect to them automatically.

Buy your own modem and router, and root the router to install Open Source firmware that gives you control of the internet.

And maybe do some Minecraft stuff with the Flock camera down the street.

[-] sumsinj@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Do people here still have their smartphones or are these things the first on the microphone hitlist?

[-] yxc999@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 hours ago
[-] sumsinj@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Yea, im stuck with not flashable phones sadly amd everytime i read something on here I get kinda sick

[-] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 1 points 27 minutes ago

Yeah, GrapheneOS is worth switching to by getting a compatible phone if you can afford it with how it is probably our most used and carried around electronic used for communication.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 31 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Things will become more obscure and harder to disable. In fact since you own nothing and you'll be happy, youre damaging government property and the police are already dispatched to take you to a totally cool and totally legal prison slave camp.

[-] yxc999@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 hours ago

I'll go down swinging with my hoarded DDR3 sticks

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago

Nah they won't send the cops, you just gotta drink a verification can

[-] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 28 points 7 hours ago

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Greetings from Sony.

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[-] MadBits@europe.pub 60 points 11 hours ago

FYI: Any speaker can and will be used as a microphone.

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