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VERIZON spying on your wireless settings!

Aug 28, 2015 1:01AM PDT

Checked my Verizon FIOS account online to discover that their modem/routers are reporting your wifi settings to the company too. They know your encryption used, it's SSID even if marked as non broadcast, and your keycode. There is no valid reason or need for them to have that information, it should be private. It isn't enough they can monitor your flow of data and email already?! I'll be tossing my own private Linksys WRT54G type router on behind theirs now. I'll will turn off the Verizon wireless totally, and use my Linksys with it's private wifi setup for my wireless instead. Too bad Verizon is invading private wifi settings used on the rented routers, it lessens the privacy value of their service. This means they probably have access to any "shared" folders on your home networks too! Maybe to all your computer data. A second router behind the first should effectively block all that.

If that's not infuriating enough for you, then check this out. Verizon using their DVR to spy on your homelife "I can see you! I can hear you!"

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Everyone is trying to spy on you
Aug 28, 2015 1:32AM PDT

And get you to pay for that privilege too! Not just "Smart TV's" but "Spy TV's". Not just recording DVR's but "Spy DVR's".

http://occupycorporatism.com/samsung-lg-verizon-use-smart-tvs-eavesdrop/

Samsung, LG & Verizon Use Smart TVs to Eavesdrop on You
By Susanne Posel – February 9, 2015

Samsung warns: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.....Two years ago, Jason Huntley, an information technologies consultant in the UK revealed how the LG smart television sends customer surveillance data to LG Electronics Inc.....Huntley discovered that regardless of turning the option off, data was still being sent to LG computer servers.

Huntley commented: “That’s a terrible implementation of the idea. It still sends the traffic but labels it saying I didn’t want it to be sent".....

Verizon patented technology that turns a DVR into a personal spying tool to watch Americans in their own homes.

Verizon calls this endeavor FierceCable that is able to display “acute sensitivity in customers’ living rooms: argument sounds prompt ads for marriage counseling,.....All cellular phones can interact with this device as a separate mode of surveillance....It is as simple as speaking a word, and the MCPS is activated.


What a wonderful brave new age we have entered, the Orwellian World.

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It's not just Verizon.
Aug 28, 2015 8:23AM PDT

Read the Wikipedia on LAVABIT and see why he shutdown. Even if Verizon didn't spy, your government does.

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Now we see why....
Aug 28, 2015 10:35AM PDT

....all the ISP's went to modem/router combination equipment. If they ONLY supplied the modem, they'd have no further access beyond it, EXCEPT to the set top box. Oh well, adding my old router behind their combo "spy-unit" will be like it was before when I used separated modem, just another power plug to add into the strip. They can see all traffic that flows through, which could only be alleviated with encryption, so can't see any use for them to know your wifi settings too. I'm sure they worry about somone having a non paying neighbor doing a piggyback on your system, but that's not enough in my opinion to justify them knowing every wifi connected computer (and it's shared folders, or more) using your account.

Maybe in future they will decided to track individual computers, especially if they tie in with Microsoft's latest means of tracking individual computers. So, a friend comes over and you let him use your wifi while visiting, but seems he doesn't have his own account either.

"Dear Verizon customer;
We have determined you have allowed a computer on your home system which is not registered to your account and this detected computer also is not known to be registered with Verizon as a paying customer. Please avoid allowing this user access to our service, or we will have to take necessary actions in regards to this infringement of our service. Furthermore, to avoid the loss of your service, we request you supply us the name, address and phone number of this person within the next 30 days. Thank you for your attention to this and we do appreciate your patronage of our service."