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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Where I'm from, France, it's not so bad I think. We have pretty strong privacy laws I feel. But now I'm in the US so yeah. I'm in cybersecurity so I see the difference with what employers are allowed to do. Also Flock cameras popping up everywhere. There are a couple near me that make me lose Android Auto's wifi everytime I drive by them so I'm thinking it's intercepting stuff.

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[–] sobchak@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

There's an intersection like that near me (android auto always drops). I haven't figured out what's causing it though. Haven't spotted a Flock camera there. There's some down the road, but none that I've noticed at the intersection. There are what look like the normal traffic cams there. I too wonder if it's something that's purposely forcing disconnections so devices start broadcasting SSIDs/MAC info or something like that.

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 7 points 11 months ago*

I mean forcing a reconnect to capture the handshake is exactly how I used to speed up WIFI cracking back in college. You would need that to break in a car's wifi in the time it's at a red light.

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[–] ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

I'm confused... There's an Android Auto WiFi that's available while you're driving around?

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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago

The way Android Auto connects, your phone connects to bluetooth on the car, then they set up their own little WIFI between them. That's why it doesn't work on VPNs that don't allow split tunneling.

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