This is chilling... (surveillance enabled by innocuous devices, some passiv)

[getagrip_already]

The video below is somewhat technical, but you can understand it without a deep knowledge of technology.

In essence, it explains how IoT devices, your tv, and even your drivers license and car tires can be used to monitor and track you without your knowledge or consent through long distance rogue mesh networks. (A mesh network is formed between devices that can both receive and transmit data over commonly used frequencies).

Corrected video url.

[SpankMe]

1. Link doesn't go to video

It goes to the home page of a YouTube channel. I looked through the channel's videos and could not find a video about surveillance.

Copy and paste error on the video URL, perhaps?

[getagrip_already]

2. hmm, try this one.....

I don't know why the other one didn't work, I took it derectly from the address bar. But i tried this one in new tab and it worked.

Apologies

[intrepidity]

3. So many implications and thoughts

1) seems like this tech could be effectively harnessed for good, such as controlling a pandemic. I wonder whether--or rather, to what degree--China and other technologically sophisticated authoritarian states may have used such tech to mitigate the pandemic in their regions (eg contact tracing).

2) is it even worth the considerable effort to avoid or circumvent this tech, if it is all but a foregone conclusion that it will continue anyway? It will soon be impossible to function in society without being integrated into the "Mesh" (or, shall we call it Skynet?).

3) Easy enough to see how the Q people believe that vaccines have already incorporated this tech... (no I don't believe it; just easy to see how someone might).

4) Thanks for the link to his channel. Guess I'll be going down that rabbit hole... I'm reluctant, because I know it'll freak me out because I have a creative imagination, but I'll watch a bunch of his videos anyway.

[getagrip_already]

4. hopefully, it is accurate and not disinfo in itself... but I know just enough about this tech

that it all makes sense to me. I've been diving into iot micro-controllers, and this capability is absolutely there. Is it imminent? Dunno.

But it is still a chilling thought.

[intrepidity]

5. Same here

I know enough to know that it's possible.

Frankly I can see the tremendous benefits, but as with all such developments, there's the potential for great abuse. The perpetual curse of technology.