YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy

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• moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  YSK: When you use your phone, there’s no privacy.

  When you use your cellphone’s built-in call feature, the antennae inside it radiate, sending signals to your carrier. Everyone in the corporation or government can hear your very intimate or business-related conversation.

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  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the antennae inside it radiate, sending signals to your carrier. Maybe don’t do this while living under fascism. Everyone in the corporations or government can hear your very intimate or business-related conversation.

    No they don’t. Not by snooping on your cellphone’s radio signals anyway: the transmission to your carrier is encrypted.

    The bad guys can intercept your convo in a MITM attack by simulating a tower and getting your phone to connect to it. But they don’t even have to do that: all it takes is subpoenaing your carrier and they’ll hand you over to them like a pig on a spit.

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    • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s this talk, where researchers found major cellular networks decrypting people’s conversations at the tower then broadcasting them unencrypted to the entire continent:

      …ccc.de/…/39c3-don-t-look-up-there-are-sensitive-…

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    • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      True enough, but can you more closely follow the format of OP for my amusement? I cut the part about collection centers for rhythm ;)

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    • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Subpoena?!? those were for the before times. Now just say you’re investigating a murder while looking for a woman calling abortion clinics, no legal access, review or consequences for breaking the law.

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My neighbours have long conversations in their cars. I can hear every word the distant party is saying.

  I think the audio levels get set higher in cars to combat road noise and the missing sound spectrum of phone calls, because it sure is loud.

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because you think your car’s vibrations is the biggest privacy problem when you make a phone call?

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ??? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here.

    I’m telling you that the car doors act like a loudspeaker, amplifying the call outside if the car. Everyone in the neighborhood can hear your private conversation about your affair, or urologist appointment,or whatever. If you think sitting in your car talking over bluetooth is going to give you some privacy, it’s quite the opposite.

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    • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have never walked past a parked car with the windows up and heard what was being said inside unless the person inside was yelling.

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Take your pick from the phone or the car (if newer than 2015ish).

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• ClownStatue@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s interesting how this has blown up to basically “because the government could if it wanted to get to your personal information, fuck it, just tell everyone!

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  • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would way rather my neighbors know what I’m up to than every institutional creeper with enough $ or a shiny enough badge

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• sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Use Signal and use headphones

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t it unsafe to use headphones while driving?

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The OP’s scenario is doing this while parked. While you’re driving it wouldn’t matter so much because there are only so many words somebody can hear when you pass them at 24-45mph

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    • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Who said anything about driving

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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on the car probably, and volume.

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