I bought my adult son a Christmas present this year that made me uncomfortable even purchasing it because by adding a soldered connection or two on the circuit board it becomes a felony to possess.
As a white hat tool for detection of other nearby bad actors or man in middle pineapple attacks it is quite useful.
Within 4 minutes of him owning and using it we found a nearby law enforcement operation, that was illegally sniffing packets on everyone within a large condominium complex.
Law enforcement routinely breaks the law to spy on you but if you do anything remotely similar it is a class G felony for you.
So keep talking shit on your cell phones and keep believing your VPN keeps your packets unsniffed.
We have no privacy and the government could give two shits about your constitutional rights. They are above the law and you are below their feet as far as they are concerned.
Happy New Year!
...absolute ironclad truth...
...extend this sentiment to crypto and the picture is complete....
Even though I existentially know this to be true I was still shocked at the concrete proof of the reality of it within 4 minutes of using the gizmo.
...the truth arrives in somber attire....
What item? Or are you talking about a phone..
Layman here. My best guess based on what op said is a packet sniffer. Sounds like he got a hardware based one.
There are many such items on the market available via main stream consumption avenues, not a cell phone but can detect if your cell is bugged ironically.
Do your own research, I'm not here product pushing, nor trying to give idiots bad ideas.
Edit: Bare in mind, whatever tech that spooks and law enforcement can get is available to you in the spy-tool/light category. Some are made in such a way that one can turn them into the full version of what law enforcement illegally uses against you and me.
It is like they can have fully automatic weapons but you can only have semi-auto. same thing in the electronics world.
You really should. I think I know what kit you are referring to, and everyone should be using it :)
I really should what? Get kick banned answering a question or put myself on even more lists?
I'd rather hint, so here is another hint, not a kit and out of the box with factory battery charge found what we found within 4 minutes.
Still don't get what your "hint" is getting at; but why would saying the name of whatever it is be an issue, but admitting to building and using whatever it is is not an issue?
Re-read, device was never modified, out of the box with factory battery charge, it worked well.
Do you read in English or just skim so lightly that you are just too busy thinking of the next dumb question to ask?
If everyone should be using it, howbout telling us what it is?
I'm joking. The O/P is right to be circumspect.
What is the device, and how do you solder it to make it a felony to possess? Asking for a friend.
If your home network is encrypted and you're using a VPN, your data is theoretically safe, right?
Also, what's the gizmo?
Not necessarily no. Your VPN is never going to be safe from state level actors....
How are you encrypting your home network? What do you mean by that exactly?
The packets on your VPN are only encrypted between your destination point and your end ISP address, the vulnerability lies at the point it hits you ISP, then it is completely vulnerable to spying eyes including your personal identification.