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BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it

Anonymous Coward
Facepalm

Re: Hardwired connection

Where's all this packet sniffing paranoia sprung from? Didn't spot any mention of any such computer misuse in the excerpt from the report. Quite the opposite in fact. In the words of the report:

"Detection vans can identify viewing on a non‐TV device in the same way that they can detect viewing on a television set.

So that'll NOT be sniffing packets then.

I reckon the fiendishly crafty scitechnowombles are probably pointing a telephoto lens with a photometer stuck on its arse at our windows, then attempting to match fluctuations in the luminance of your flock/woodchip/nets/whatever with the live "luminosity profiles" they'll be generating for each of the channels of shit they're transmitting at us.

Simples.

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