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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy (www.sciencedaily.com)
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The reason the FCC is only allowing the sale of state approved routers in the US?

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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

FWIW I was able to use my own router when I set up with Xfinity recently

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    This was fiber, if that makes a difference. I asked the install guy, he called his boss, because no one had asked him that before. He told me "no, it's not allowed". Also, I tried plugging the patch cable directly into my own wifi router and nothing.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Also, I tried plugging the patch cable directly into my own wifi router and nothing.

    The router would need to be explicitly configured to connect to your account on the network, which would require certain information provided by the ISP, which it sounds like they weren't going to provide.

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