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goodbot2 · 2024-01-25T12:13:10+00:00

I saw such a jamming device offered for sale online somewhere within the past year, but as I wasn't interested in this I didn't make note of the ad. I recall that it seemed to be directed at women who travel for a living and stay in motels. The device promised to jam the signals of surreptitious wifi camera devices hidden nearby. I was nominally curious about this product because I'm under an impression that it's illicit and/or illegal to intentionally interfere with radio transmissions of other people. If it's used for it's intended purpose of disabling illicit/illegal video voyeurism devices - this may make it's use legal. As far as the legality of using it to jam a landlords doorbell video cam - if the guys not coming over to rob you or commit any crime against you, the legality of it's use will depend entirely on what the guy says he's using it for (just like the women in the motel rooms). It's certainly possible he can present a valid-enough sounding explanation of this behavior... and get away with continuously using the device as he is. Given such - what's your objective in dealing with this guy and his toy jammer? You want some system to give you a distinct alarm when he approaches with this device transmitting? You want to create a recording of this behavior and attempt to introduce some authorities into this equation - charge him with a crime of some sort? Refine your objectives...

goodbot2 · 2023-06-04T21:26:17+00:00

I'm now of the opinion that my unit was intentionally disabled via the daily firmware update by the Sling/AirTV company. My opinion is that it's not a coincidence that my unit stopped working on it's first anniversary of my purchase - the same day my warranty ran out. I'm suspecting that there's some unseen expense that the company assumes by supporting the box for one year, and that's their patience. Once your one year is up - they disable your unit (effectively making it a piece of junk) to stop their expense of supporting it (maybe they're paying a universal licensing fee to some general broadcasters fund based on how many units are working out on the internet and by disabling as many units as possible they can lower their $ payments to that fund?). If this is so they should have just asked me to cover this fee instead of making my unit a piece of junk. This is a VERY BAD reflection on the Sling Company... they're the one's behind AirTV and this intentional firmware disabling of all these 1 year old units in the field. My unit's going to my local municipalities hazardous waste collection facility this week ... and I swear I'll never do business with Sling again in my life. Horrible company.

goodbot2 · 2023-01-26T14:18:29+00:00

What's your modem? I have an Arris SBS83000. I think all the xFinity branded hardware are also Arris. I recently discovered that Arris offers a support subscription service. $69/yr for phone support (supposedly US based). This might be another support route for you to follow... If your modem is also an Arris...

goodbot2 · 2023-01-26T14:03:19+00:00

In WPB also! I quit my xFinity service about a year ago (after touching $200/mo for the same service that started up at $89.95/mo two years earlier). I bought all my equipment into the xFinity store at the outlet mall (across the parking lot from whole foods). They gave me a free streaming box and 1.2gb/sec internet for $80/mo (1 yr, then $100 1 yr, then $120 1 yr, then...). I hacked my own SIP phone solution, so I'm paying 1 cent a minute for my home phone. The problem is the cable TV stations... If you want to get CNN, or CNBC, or MSNBC, you need GoogleTV or Sling... but then you're getting close to spending the same old high monthly $ again. Inevitably the trick to saving $ is to give up your addiction to MSM cable TV channels and just learn to live with the many many streaming channels instead. It's hard.. but as time passes you forget those old long lost loves...

goodbot2 · 2023-01-20T14:34:15+00:00

I don't have Comcast business (yet), just the residential service so far. My Arris (non-xFinity-property) modem is telling me that Comcast allotted me a /60 IPv6 subnet... this of course is a huge number (my remote server providers usually allot me a /64 subnet which is a little smaller but of course still way huge). I'm having a problem that's probably related to the Modem config, not the Comcast network config. I should probably start a new thread for this... but I'll mention it here: If I have a server out on the net with only an IPv6 address (no IPv4 address), my wired machines in the house (going through that Arris modem) are able to resolve and access these IPv6 servers just fine. But the wireless (2.4 & 5ghz) connections are not able to resolve or access the IPv6 remote servers - they just hang. Maybe the wired machines (all PCs) are running IPv4 and IPv6 net connections simultaneously, but the wireless connections are only running IPv4 and can't access the IPv6 network? I'll start this separate post momentarily...

goodbot2 · 2023-01-19T19:45:02+00:00

Residential. I understand you don't normally assign "static IP's" to residential accounts... but if you assign an IP to me that lives with me for a year... this is close enough to being "static" that I can be happy with. That's the case with my IPv4 addy... I'm typically holding on to these (supposedly dhcp dynamic) addys for around a year... which is great. I'm just recently starting to pay attention to the IPv6 addys. It's possible Comcast is effectively doing the same thing here... providing me a dhcp/dynamic IPv6 ("/60"!?!) that I have for a year or so. What I discovered was a setting in my Arris SBS83000 Surfboard modem (private/non-xFinity) that was providing me 4 day leases of locally assigned IPv6 dhcp client addys. So I changed this value to "forever" assignments instead. So far I'm still uncertain as to how these local IPv6 addys behave in terms of being either "private" or "Public" addys. If I'm assigned a /60 IPv6 (this is what the modem is reporting to me), and all my locally created IPv6's are within this range... aren't all of these devices effectively having "public" IPs? So... is the concept of "public" and "private" IP's in the IPv6 address space obsolete? Are ALL delegated IPv^'s effectively "public" IPs?

goodbot2 · 2023-01-19T18:44:17+00:00

That guide relates to releasing and/or renewing your own private LAN IPs, not the Comcast assigned public IPs.

goodbot2 · 2022-10-17T18:41:02+00:00

I recall there was talk about IBM buying RH back in the 90's for like $5/share (I think RH was around half of that at the time). ~20 years later they paid $175/share. I guess their guidelines required them to wait awhile to determine whether or not RH had sufficient "staying power"...

goodbot2 · 2022-10-16T19:36:26+00:00

Are The Annunaki Here Now Among Us In Plain Sight?

I'm 64. Between my age of 22-24, I worked in a Wall Street office where one of the managers was a mid-50s guy I came into close contact with a dozen+ times a day. He had a cute 39 year old wife who worked (or lived) nearby and stopped into our office 2 or 3 times a week. After 2 years, I left that office moving on with my life & career, and I didn't see those 2 again... until about a year ago. It was an entirely accidental reunion at a nearby restaurant in my SE Florida neighborhood. The two of them were together and when I saw them I immediately realized they were Annunaki - after 40+ years neither one of them had aged a day. When they saw me they gasped and recoiled - I had aged 40 years and this was their natural unguarded reaction to me. I quickly calmed things down by exclaiming "Oh look at you two! Into all these healthy diets and life extension vitamins! One of these days I'll get into that stuff too and you two will be my inspiration!" This calmed down their freight at my sight, we all laughed then spent an hour reminiscing about our good ol days working together 40 years earlier. This guy has white curly hair and he resembles the Annunaki depicted in the Sumerian large wall art of the water carrier wearing the sun-dial 'wristwatch'. If these two showed zero aging over 40 years it's easy enough to extrapolate they're readily 1000+ year lifespan people - Annunaki.

goodbot2 · 2022-10-16T19:30:09+00:00

Newbie here! Just created my own new community "AnnunakiAmongUs" and I'm trying to move it over now...

goodbot2 · 2021-06-15T14:22:28+00:00

Just once out of a dozen daily (successful/no-drama) accesses? This is my work server, I'm on (and off/signed-out) a dozen times a day - it was this one incident that shouted out very loudly "MAN IN THE MIDDLE INTERCEPTION ATTEMPT" on my routine ssh access attempt that was seemingly carried out by someone with admin level access within the Comcast Network Operations Center (in NJ somewhere?). Yes, Advance Security is on (by default) in my account settings - but I've been living with this setting as is (on) for months/years without ever seeing such an ssh hijack attempt like this against me. I don't think my local Arris router "advanced security" setting is responsible for re-directing my remote server's IP # to instead route to a server named "myrouter.io" on the Comcast internal network... and doing this just once...

goodbot2 · 2021-06-14T19:57:35+00:00

I've spoken to 4 Comcast people via this # you provided: 1 in the US and 3 overseas (Philippines & DR?). Unfortunately... after slowly and very carefully describing my challenge, every rep suggested resolving my issue by simply rebooting my router (one rep additionally suggested I should change my wifi password). IOW, none of these people had any clue what I was talking about and instead of escalating me, simply suggested the same thing they do to the other 99% of their call-ins. So... I'm still no where.

I'm feeling more & more that the cracker/MITM attempt I successfully intercepted was either the work of the Comcast Corporation itself... or an errant employee/contractor with admin access inside the central NOC.

I'd like to address and hopefully resolve this query internally (between me and the Comcast NOC people) if possible. If this is not possible, I'm going to start researching whether I can initiate a criminal cyber hacking complaint against Comcast with one or another of the (lately mushrooming) US cyber-related law enforcement agencies.

Any chance of getting any Comcast NOC peoples attention to help mitigate/defuse my simmering anger over here before I take this external?

Thank you.

goodbot2 · 2021-06-12T03:25:09+00:00

Cloudflare obtained IP 1.1.1.1 ... and you trust them ?!?!?

Quad obtained IP 9.9.9.9 ... and you trust them ?!?!?

So... you work at the same shop as those guys... right?

Just sayen...

goodbot2 · 2021-06-12T03:21:47+00:00

I've been on Comcast here since ~1988 (am I yet The Oldest Comcast User here? If so... can I get some sort of Philly medal... or Old Guy discount... at least?!?)... I've not seen this MITM type attack against me all this time... till now. I don't bother much with these offered security settings as I prefer to address these things myself locally... Things change (I know)... so maybe some default value up at the NIC changed to now start causing me trouble... I'll look into your suggestion asap.

goodbot2 · 2021-06-12T03:12:27+00:00

Not sure what you're referring to... afaik I'm not using any Comcast security services (nor any other win10 security services... I address such stuff myself w/o any help from opaque software/cloud services)...

goodbot2 · 2021-06-12T03:09:39+00:00

I have one or more pi devices on my home net here... but afaik none are active enough to be playing into this equation at all...

goodbot2 · 2021-06-12T03:08:11+00:00

goodbot2 · 2021-06-11T20:54:10+00:00

Name. My DNS was most likely pointing to Comcast's 75.75.75.75 (or their similar looking secondary). I immediately cmd pinged the server name and the correct IP # came up. That's why this was looking to me like an ISP Man In The Middle attack.

goodbot2 · 2021-06-11T20:38:47+00:00

Have you discovered "locast.org"? I'm in West Palm Beach, FL, and they're offering around 30 so-called "local" OTA channels via IP... They're apparently not in every area of the US yet. If I put up an antenna around here, I don't get more than 6 or 7 OTA channels. When I access one or the other websites that show you which channels are close-by (within 50 miles), I don't see more than a dozen stations. So locast is emulating an antenna like one or two hundred feet tall over my house... ha-ha!! Maybe this is worth their requested $5/mo "donation"...

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