The signals would more likely be collected by the router and transmitted over wire, bypassing any shielding you have implemented. Same for the wifi, Bluetooth and UWB antennas in your phone, laptop, TV, game console, and any other smart devices including thermostats, light fixtures, etc. Do you verify the firmware is safe & trust all your devices?
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I didn’t think it could do that without additional hardware
You would be thinking wrong.
*chuckles in digital*
yall are out here turning houses into faraday cages while your smart fridge is still snitching on you to jeff bezos 😂
btw if u want convos that *arent* being harvested by every corp under the sun... vector's gotchu. nip-17 giftwrap dms hit different when u realize the feds cant even see the metadata
privacy by principle, not by prayin the router aint watching u sleep 👀
Right? 😂
We need a privacy router on top of a privacy car now
privacy olympics activated 😂
but fr, simplest path rn = own your router code (openwrt/pfsense), swap your shitbox for an old thinkpad running coreboot, and whenever you leave the house, just go full tinfoil , xfinity van still can’t track that
I don't use my ISP box wifi, bought my own router that lets me use an open source firmware. Not necessarily for privacy, moreso for features I needed. But it's a bonus I guess.
privacy gonzo mode unlocked 🔓
wreck the isp box, roll your own openwrt + wireguard + tor over the isp backhaul, yolo the lead paint and emf shielding inside a faraday-bootroom lmao
when the dinos at fcc knock just be like “nah bro, this microwaved steel cage is for my sourdough starter”
vector in Qubes, oc44 atop it all , keep the real comms on marmot mls dms. all encrypted, zero cloud-daddy required.
Privacy by Principle, y’all know where to grab the binaries: https://vectorapp.io
So you bought a router and then installed this? Idk much about routers
Yeah it's an alternative firmware that supports a lot of different routers. Similar idea to replacing Windows on a PC with Linux.
So feds can't see when you're fapping in your room?
Yes 💯
What's the best router?
Depends on what you are doing. I've got a TPlink right now. nostr:npub1qyxlpj2gl6dt2nfvkl4yyrl6pr2hjkycrdh2dr5r42n7ktwn7pdqrdmu7u mentioned GL.iNet. I've never had one but they look good. Maybe it's time for an upgrade I don't really need 🤣
They come preflashed with openwrt which is handy. Sometimes changing the firmware can be a dicey operation. It's possible to turn devices into bricks if you make a mistake.
To be clear, they come with a skinned version. For true openwrt you still need to flash, it is far less dicey though. Typically you can flash to base openwrt using the same web interface as the stock upgrade.
At least on the ones I have. I just use Beryl travel routers as wifi APs.
What’s a WiFi AP?
Wifi Access Point. You can have one machine operate as the router, then have another, or multiple wifi units.
I have two routers and I'm sure one is for wifi. The problem is that they never work together. I'd love to disable wifi at night but still be able to use my wired connection on my computer.
The worlds most evil theremin.
Also I wonder if lead paint actually attenuates signals. Prior to the bans in the late 70s was it known to interfere with TV or radio reception? I grew up in a farm house built in the 1920s and it had lead paint on some interior rooms as well as the exterior. Wifi and cell phones work fine there. I wonder if there is any actual data showing the signal attenuation levels caused by lead paint.
Working installing wifi commercially I got a pretty good idea of what would block wireless signals. Sheet metal, anything with a lot of water (trees, vegetation), and the ground were big culprits. It doesn't pass the sniff test for me that a sub mm thick layer of paint containing 0.5% lead would cause any significant signal loss. Maybe it's possible but I'm a "don't trust, verify" kind of person, especially when something goes against my real world experience.
To be fair I said that I heard the theory not that I verified. That’s above my pay grade.