Submitted 1 month ago by reddig33@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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.
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!
I would way rather my neighbors know what I’m up to than every institutional creeper with enough $ or a shiny enough badge
This is why I have my most personal conversations on the bus.
Because you think your car’s vibrations is the biggest privacy problem when you make a phone call?
??? 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.
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.
Take your pick from the phone or the car (if newer than 2015ish).
Depends on the car probably, and volume.
I have a feeling that the people blasting conversations in their car are the same ones in the airport subjecting everyone nearby to their conversations on speakerphone.
Aye, this is one of those weird things that I’ve noticed. The conversations somehow broadcast outside the vehicle much louder than music. Something about how voice calls are handled by the sound system is different, whether it’s volume boosting or something else.
Use Signal and use headphones
Isn’t it unsafe to use headphones while driving?
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
Who said anything about driving
Use open-ear headphones like bone-conduction.
The person would need to be in your face to listen to your convo.
Difference between calling at 10% or 110% sound volume lol.
And if someone was to eavesdrop by holding their ear to my car, I’d say that’s a bit suspicious.
Wait, loudspeakers are loud?
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 month 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.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 month ago
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.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month 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-…
moonshadow@slrpnk.net 1 month 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 ;)
pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YSK: When you have a conversation, there’s no privacy
When you use your built-in vocal chords feature, the tissues in your throat reverberate, sending the sounds outside of your body. Maybe don’t do this while you’re in public. Everyone in the neighborhood or store parking lot can hear your very intimate or business-related conversation.