BBC to deploy detection vans to snoop on internet users

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Poms who watch the BBC via the net and don't pay their TV licences will be targeted.

The BBC is to spy on internet users in their homes by deploying a new generation of Wi-Fi detection vans to identify those illicitly watching its programmes online.
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... electrical engineering experts said that the most likely explanation for how the BBC would carry out its surveillance was a technique known as “packet sniffing”, which involves watching traffic passing over a wireless internet network without hacking into the connection or breaking its encryption.

Researchers at University College London disclosed that they had used a laptop running freely available software to identify Skype internet phone calls passing over encrypted Wi-Fi, without needing to crack the network password.
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Privacy campaigners described the developments as “creepy and worrying”.
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Sure is!

I'm sure Hlaudi would like a few of these spy trucks. ;)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/05/bbc-to-deploy-detection-vans-to-snoop-on-internet-users/
 
what did they use? Kali?

this will make people use a cable and vpn...

seems like a lot of money to invest just for "watching BBC online" ...
 
The BBC have had "detector vans" for decades, there has not been a single TV licence prosecution using a detector van EVER. Mainly because it would open them up to cross examination on the equipment used and the vans are just plain white vans with lots of decals on the outside and lots of nothing on the inside.

They are effectively used as scare machines that drive around and try and frighten people into buying a TV licence.


Here's one report:

‘Detector vans are a myth,’ the UKIP MEP Gerard Batten, a long-time campaigner against the licence fee, told me this week.

‘Prosecution [for not having a TV licence] depends on the accused being caught in the act of watching live broadcasts, or admitting to it. The non-existent threat of Detector Van evidence is just a means of getting suspects to incriminate themselves.’

Sceptics such as Batten point out there isn’t a single documented case in British legal history in which so-called ‘detection evidence’ from vans has been used to prosecute a licence fee evader.

This was, sheepishly, confirmed by the BBC in 2011 in response to a (hitherto unreported) Freedom of Information request.

Sceptics also wonder why the BBC has always refused to either say how many of the vehicles it owns, or to answer questions about how they work, who operates them, and where they are used.

Instead, the Corporation’s spokesmen have for decades told reporters that revealing such information ‘might be useful to people trying to evade the licence fee’.

All of which has only added to the weight of doubt regarding the very existence of the vans.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...yve-led-single-prosecution.html#ixzz4GZbBYQaX
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I remember a story about the google vans snooping on wifi signals..
 
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I remember a story about the google vans snooping on wifi signals..
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Only open networks.

The company’s fleet of photo-snapping cars is equipped with Wi-Fi hardware to record the names and MAC addresses of nearby routers to improve Google geolocation services. From 2008-2010, those vehicles were also capturing tiny snippets of internet traffic from countless thousands of routers that weren’t employing encryption, turning every Street View vehicle into a rolling spy machine.
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https://www.wired.com/2014/04/threatlevel_0401_streetview/
 
I dont't wanna be a smart alec but what about people using ethernet cables?
 
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