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Printers leave a watermark on each page indicating the exact printer that it came from. Are there any other examples of these privacy violations that aren't common knowledge? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 2 weeks ago by thepompe@ttrpg.network to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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One thing I'm concerned about is recording equipment leaving identifiable information without us knowing about it.

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[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would or is also a really good way to sniff WiFi passwords. If anybody says "Well yes, I am indeed $HOME_NETWORK_NAME" your phone just hands them the password.

okay that’s very untrue… wifi passwords aren’t really passwords; more accurately they’re pre-shared keys… they are used to generate the encryption parameters used to talk to the AP. the password is never sent over the air, and there’s a 4-way handshake

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it also untrue that phones broadcast their home wifi SSIDs when out and about?

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

i’m fairly sure it’s untrue yes but didn’t want to comment that because i don’t know for sure, and honestly it’s a little null and void because they definitely do broadcast all kinds of bluetooth stuff which is equally trackable (though i guess with all the wifi location data you can correlate someone in the store to where they live pretty much perfectly accurately where bluetooth info is less useful in that regard)

i’m 99% sure your phone scans for available wifi networks, sees one it knows and then connects, but i could see a situation where it’s 2s faster to just keep trying so for a “good user experience” some shit company decided to start doing it… but i’m pretty sure for apple pr google that’d result in a CVE