Surveillance Via Smart Toothbrush

This time it’s a “Smart Device”, or as previously mentioned on this blog an internet connected “adult only toy”.
But also it could just as easily have been via the house “Smart Meter”…
Any electrical device usage in your home gets reported via the “smart grid”. And can be in sufficiently near “real time” detail that anyone monitoring the communications –even if they are encrypted– can see devices are being used and how.
Think of it as “Traffic analysis” on steroids.
But… further all usage of grid power has “a signature” that can identify the device type/model and quite often environmental factors like the temperature in the room. Think how your fridge compressor comes on and goes off likewise air con. So a change in “Delta” for the fridge but not in the aircon is indicative of someone using the contents of the fridge, and potentially the mass of what was taken out or put in.

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Surveillance Via Smart Toothbrush