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[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] myyass@lemmy.world 4 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes 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 2 points 44 minutes ago

It's sad isn't it?

The walls are listening

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] davetortoise@reddthat.com 10 points 2 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 1 points 43 minutes 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 14 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] Luccus@feddit.org 6 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 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 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] yxc999@lemmy.ml 2 points 45 minutes ago

GrapheneOS my brother

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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 4 hours ago

I'll go down swinging with my hoarded DDR3 sticks

[-] lemming741@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 hours ago

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Greetings from Sony.

[-] Goforce5@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I thought that greentext was so outrageous when it first appeared, and now its probably going to be reality at some point.

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[-] MadBits@europe.pub 51 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Disable your speakers and run your audio out through an amp/speaker-bar that has no internet connection.

You might not be able to stop Jack Bauer from personally tracking you, but the sort of dragnet surveillance most people are worried about can still, for now, be mitigated with effort.

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