The Bug We Invited to Dinner includes some obvious ones - cell phones, laptops/computers in the room, smart TV control handsets... and also some we might not expect - thermostats (most Nest and Ring brand include microphones), appliances (not only do they have microphones, but they often use Zigbee or Bluetooth to daisy chain until they find an internet access), the now loargely digital hand sets of "landlines" (which often are not POTS at all), and of course te openly invited listening devices like Alexa, HomeKit, and certain Siri devices.

The average home and office will have many microphones, most which are not fully controlable by the occupants.

These "invited bugs" use internet, cellular data, Zigbee, Bluetooth and other forms of data transmission, may daisy chain themselves even using several data methods to get outside access, and in certain instances may use record-and-store to gather data until them have an opportunity to pass it on.

Some of the data may be video as well as audio, and other data sets may be on the axis leading out more towards metadata. Knowing that you are home, likely doing something particular in a certain spot in the buildind, can be the data goal.

If you are using wireless WiFi and have more than one router or using multiband, in theory you can be triangulated within inches. Certain demonstrations appear to have acheived imaging with this sort of techniques as well.

These all are the ones we invited into our world.

--- Steve K9ZW via SPOT BBS

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