A 30-year-old Polish software developer has built an iPhone app that detects Meta smart glasses in the vicinity and estimates how far away they are by reading the Bluetooth signals the glasses broadcast. It has around 5,000 users a month after launch.
Ah thanks that answers that.
I once read that with the right equipment or programs, if withing so many feet of someone, you can pick up audio and visual being recorded right onto a phone as they leak a bit of their rf waves. iirc.
Yup. It’s really not that hard, or as expensive as you might think. That’s why… I think it was Obama(?) that said that 100% privacy is impossible. It wasn’t about just the government, but your phone is always trasnmitting something, and unless it’s encrypted beyond the simple IP designations to keep overlap from happening, it’s out there.
People think it’s secure because they’re not picking up others phone calls anymore but it’s just an invisible wire. A completely unprotected, digital wire. And that wire can be tapped into with the right equipment and knowledge. Whether that’s the government, someone trying to steal your information to sell or use your credit card/bank info, or just the paranoid conspiracy theorist down the street with a suspicious amount of antennas.
They can even be mobile, it’s small enough to fit in the trunk of a car and you can block 4/5G signals forcing phones in the area down to 2G which is completely unencrypted. They can then transmit a fake text to you with a phishing link. So you should check your settings for an option to block your phone from dropping to 2G.
‘…or just the paranoid conspiracy theorist down the street with a suspicious amount of antennas.’ Ha ha, I am going to use some version of that.
Thanks for the tip on the 2g thing. I actually downgraded from a smart phone to a flip phone (new, old ones they said they couldn’t get to work,) and that might be a rather larger concern for me now.
Well if it’s dumb enough, you wouldn’t want to input information that would be harmful if it got out anyway. Just stick to text and calls and you’ll be fine. Just don’t click on any links from people you don’t know.