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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 7
JCM9 7/1/2025|
Reason 732 why I would never use the network gear provided by an ISP.
oarla 7/1/2025||
Just get your own router and don't use ISP provided router.
transpute 7/1/2025|
Similar features are planned for consumer routers, see IEEE 802.11bf.
exabrial 6/30/2025||
Yeah, disable that wifi on an device not controlled by you
damascus 6/30/2025|
If they make the firmware there's no guarantee they aren't still doing it just without a broadcast SSID going along with it.
exabrial 7/8/2025||
I guess technically they don't need to use wifi, could just have a hidden microwave chip in it and use a non-wifi detection sysatem.

Great. Now super paranoid lol.

everdrive 7/1/2025||
>tape a smartphone to your roomba

>stream audiobooks

>leave house, commit crime

pyuser583 6/30/2025||
It’s creepy there is an Exclude Small Pets mode.
sleepybrett 7/1/2025||
so is this just looking at the SNR for any given connected device and looking for sudden dramatic changes in it?
Izikiel43 7/1/2025||
One more reason yet to have my own modem.
anonu 7/1/2025||
Can you block this with a pihole?
jklinger410 6/30/2025||
I had a conspiracy theorist tell me one time this is why they removed all the lead paint. It never quite made sense that kids were actually eating lead chips.

I know lead is bad for you, maybe a coincidence.

Aurornis 6/30/2025||
Even old lead paint didn't have a lot of lead in it. A thin layer of lead paint with <1% lead does nearly nothing for WiFi signals.

We use lead for shielding ionizing radiation like gamma rays, but even that uses a lot more lead than you'd find in paint.

Not all "radiation" is the same thing.

jklinger410 7/1/2025||
Good to know! Thanks for clarifying.
aurizon 7/1/2025|||
There is a pattern called 'Pica' where kids gnaw on stuff, windows, ledges etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
meepmorp 6/30/2025|||
Apart from what the sibling poster said about lead (II acetate) having a sweet taste, little kids will put literally anything in their mouths. You ain't lived till you had to get dog shit out of a baby's mouth.
linsomniac 6/30/2025||
>It never quite made sense that kids were actually eating lead chips

You know that lead tastes sweet, right?

jklinger410 7/1/2025||
I did not! I've never eaten lead lol
sciencesama 7/1/2025|
is ther an adblock for https ? can we do subdomain https ad blocking ?
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