Hopefully my personal router isn't being used by the ISP for this sort of thing. Odds are, they probably just do it, because capitalism is sucktackular by default.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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If anyone didn't already know, this isn't anything new. It's basically just WiGLE but not public level, and is using that to track devices coming and going.
You don't need Xfinity WiFi to do this. Everything you have with a BT or WiFi antenna is already out there and everyone can see it. It's logged and recorded. Can literally see my neighbour's got two iPhones moving around right now and I didn't even get out of bed. Oh, they also have a JBL Encore Essential... That explains something that happened last week.
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