Well, here's one more reason not to trust Comcast: Those internet repairmen at your door may actually be undercover agents — especially if they arrived promptly after the outage occurred. Indeed, Nevada courts are currently considering whether it's legal for the government to cut off your internet or other utilities, dress up as technicians, and then gain entrance to your house to conduct a warrantless search.
Earlier this year, FBI agents did exactly that after becoming suspicious of Chinese gamblers staying in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Per the agents' defense lawyer, the decision was, "We'll dress up as technicians, we'll come inside, we'll claim to be fixing the internet connection — even though we can't, 'cause we broke it from outside — and then we'll just look around and see what we see."
After seeing what they saw, the FBI concluded the Chinese group was doing nothing illegal.
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It's true Comcast works with the feds using a few techs as spies...This is why their huge merger will go through creating one huge cable company which will be basically another government agency watching you.
ReplyDeleteI've been told that the cable box also have a camera lens in them for picture and video. Might be a good idea to cover it when not using it. For all we know they probably have microphones in them as well.
ReplyDeleteThe new boxes they use are basically a home network that not only monitor your viewing habits but have camera's and recording devices.
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