"Can be" in what sense? With custom software? This looks like they want to roll this capability into the standard, which would mean that every off-the-shelf router that adheres to that standard would have this feature. I'm pretty sure that isn't true of the routers you can buy today.
I'm not talking about an attack, I'm talking about someone like Comcast getting the ability to have a veritable radar image of your home and movements therein, which is not an ability that currently exists.
Conceivably, code to do just this could be easily implemented on a Comcast-made and owned modem/router combo since they would control all aspects of its operation and there is no customer equipment between it and the Internet. The code already exists for them to do just this, they just have to have the will to implement it.
Maybe eventually give a discount if you let them monitor you.. or the company gets paid by the government to spy on you as a separate revenue stream, you pay the service and they also get paid to conduct surveillance? Surveillance-as-a-Service?
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"Can be" in what sense? With custom software? This looks like they want to roll this capability into the standard, which would mean that every off-the-shelf router that adheres to that standard would have this feature. I'm pretty sure that isn't true of the routers you can buy today.
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I'm not talking about an attack, I'm talking about someone like Comcast getting the ability to have a veritable radar image of your home and movements therein, which is not an ability that currently exists.
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Well it does currently exist but they probably don't have a way to convincingly lie and say it's necessary.
Conceivably, code to do just this could be easily implemented on a Comcast-made and owned modem/router combo since they would control all aspects of its operation and there is no customer equipment between it and the Internet. The code already exists for them to do just this, they just have to have the will to implement it.
Maybe eventually give a discount if you let them monitor you.. or the company gets paid by the government to spy on you as a separate revenue stream, you pay the service and they also get paid to conduct surveillance? Surveillance-as-a-Service?
Insurance companies would love this capability.