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Posted by bearsyankees 6/30/2025

Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion(www.xfinity.com)
668 points | 501 commentspage 3
sneak 6/30/2025|
What is the escalation path for replacing or removing the corrupt public utility commissions that allow these fraudulent and unethical monopolists to continue operating?

We have endless cases of Comcast and others criminally abusing their granted monopoly and the PUCs simply allowing them to run roughshod over consumers.

How do we fix it?

rancar2 6/30/2025||
This reminds of an MIT-licensed library that was Vibe-coded and released three weeks ago. The source is available here: https://github.com/ruvnet/wifi-densepose
Havoc 6/30/2025|
Thought I could integrate that into home assistant...till I got to the 78% GPU utilization part. Bit heavy for 24/7
dvdbloc 7/1/2025||
Could I sufficiently foil their mechanism here by not connecting any WiFi devices to their access point and then wrapping their access point with foil? Or would you need to take it all the way and put the device in a faraday cage? I’ve always wanted to build one but never had the motivation. Maybe this will be the impetus I need to finally make one! Like others have stated I use the ISP provided hardware to get around the data cap. But connect nothing to it other than my own router.
VariousPrograms 6/30/2025||
One more reason not to use an ISP router, although in this case most of us are at minimum carrying around GPS homing beacons in our pocket so the carriers already know where we are.
OptionOfT 6/30/2025|
And now we also know the reason why they give away unlimited data for free when you use their router, but not when you want to use your own router.
ajcp 6/30/2025||
I can turn off the WiFi on my ISPs (Cox) router. I just have it port-forward everything into my own wifi-router where I manage it from there.
fred_is_fred 7/1/2025||
Up next - Comcast will pause ads when it detects that you've walked into the kitchen - or raise the volume. Advertisers can pay extra for this feature.
lrvick 6/30/2025||
Soon ICE will have given Comcast enough money to provide a live feed of the neighborhoods they are targeting and where all the bodies are that match the height of their targets.

We need to be finding the xfinity wifi hotspots in our neighborhoods, knock on doors, and help people understand the risks they are creating for themselves and their neighbors and how to setup their own routers.

thegrim33 7/1/2025||
Funny, Xfinity has been spamming me for months now trying to get me to get off my own hardware and onto theirs. Promising me vague "speed improvements" (and of course without ever bothering to provide a single piece of data about how/why speed would be improved, or by how much). No, no I don't think I will.
knetl 7/1/2025||
Is Xfinity licensing Wifi Motion™ from Cognitive Systems?[0]

"WiFi Motion, Cognitive’s Wi-Fi Sensing solution, is an innovative software platform that leverages AI and sophisticated algorithms to transform existing Wi-Fi signals into a motion sensing network."

Another company operating in this space is Origin Wireless. They demonstrated breathing detection with WiFi in 2017[1]. They've since partnered with ISPs to offer a WiFi Sensing "TruShield" home security service.[2]

[0]https://www.cognitivesystems.com/

[1]https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-09-origin-wireless-motion-d...

[2]https://www.originwirelessai.com/trushield/

casper14 7/1/2025|
Yes
SamaraMichi 7/1/2025||
Can't help but imagine a reality where this is widespread and people resort to installing radio reflective curtains/decorations that freely move with slight ambient air currents in an effort to scramble the reflections and make it as hard as they can to measure.

Something like a belly dance belt around the router could also work.

transpute 7/1/2025|
Other options:

  - Shielded rooms + wired networking
  - Shielded rooms + Li-Fi (wireless with light instead of radio)
Humans who want some rooms of their house to be non-transparent will need either new construction or to retrofit shielding, e.g. QuietRock drywall.
divbzero 7/1/2025|
Linksys has offered similar functionality (“Linksys Aware”) since 2019.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905223/linksys-aware-me...

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