alt Hacker NewsThey are likely going to have access. Lots of things have built in cellular modems these days, and your cable provider already uses your cable modem as a hotspot for other people.
You can do things like physically modifying your TV, or seeing if there are undocumented settings to disable things.
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> your cable provider already uses your cable modem as a hotspot for other people.
Is this for real? This does not affect me as I use my own equipment, but I still find it hard to believe.
> hotspot for other people.
How does this work legally when you get in trouble for someone else's activity?
It's also usually not that hard to open the case and remove the physical antennas.
Is that why the cable companies are always trying to get me to use their equipment now?? God I hate this.
It works both ways though.
The traffic was separated so that anything on the public hotspot was not attributed to the private subscriber network.
Secondly for years I lived somewhere very remote so that meant that hardly anyone ever got to use my broadband connection via such a hotspot, but I got to use hundreds of other peoples hotspots when I was somewhere less isolated.
I was quite happy to opt in to this system as I benefitted hugely from it.